PORTABLE TV FOR ARMY
Consideration'
For Australia
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, January 27
The Australian Army would eventually have to consider using portable television equipment in the front line, the Chief of the General Staff (Sir Ragnar Garrett) said today. Signallers had shown at the annual chiefs-of-staff exercise at the week-end how front line soldiers could transmit live television pictures of the battle to command posts, he said.
He added that he did not think the Army should get television equipment at the expense of more urgent projects.The exercise, conducted at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, was based on an atomic attack on an Australian division fighting a defensive action in South-east Asia.
Sir Ragnar Garrett said one of the conclusions of the exercise was that the Army would have to adopt the “commando spirit.” The Army had to be able to use commando techniques of communication, mobility and supply in order to survive as an effective force under nuclear attack in the tropics, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28805, 28 January 1959, Page 15
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