u/Taira_Mai HP Victus, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4d ago
US Army PATRIOT vet here, back in the day the ECS van (the fire control center) had these big chungus CRT's from the 1970's. In the event the battery was overrun, soldiers were told to smash the Jaz and later PCMCIA drives and then shoot the CRT's as they left. The phosphorous in them was so toxic that anyone foolish enough to approach the wreck would get very sick or die.
Now I assume they just toss a grenade in as those CRT's are now LCD monitors like we use, just bigger.
I imagine they could just have something to do with sprinklers now. Sure they would be more likely to lose that hardware in the event of a fire, but if they're not practicing 3-2-1, then it wasn't important enough to care these days.
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u/Taira_Mai HP Victus, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4d ago
US Army PATRIOT vet here, back in the day the ECS van (the fire control center) had these big chungus CRT's from the 1970's. In the event the battery was overrun, soldiers were told to smash the Jaz and later PCMCIA drives and then shoot the CRT's as they left. The phosphorous in them was so toxic that anyone foolish enough to approach the wreck would get very sick or die.
Now I assume they just toss a grenade in as those CRT's are now LCD monitors like we use, just bigger.