Thank you everyone! Really appreciate the compliments!
And I have both harddrives - the external and the laptop harddrive, the latter of which was doing the clicking (a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320 GB) - safely put away for when I discover someone who can attempt to recover the RAW files. Oh, I forgot to mention, my
New Zealand vacation was kept in my deployment folder on both drives, thus being corrupted as well. I learned that when I was going to submit photo number 15 to Nat Geo's current Travel Photography contest.
Originally posted by apisto Great article, as a former US Army Combat Engineer, I appreciate the efforts you went through to share your work and experiences, and always enjoyed your updates. They kinda "brought me back" to my time in a bit. I also saw nothing that I whought that was an OPSEC concern. In fact, I silently applauded your clear caution in that regard, and thought you had yourself covered. Sounds like your peer was not equiped to make the decision. And you can count on someone not equiped to make a decision to pretty much always make the wrong one.
Ah, another Sapper - does the thought of pounding pickets give you nightmares?
No, he was not equipped to make the decision at all. But that is just what precedes a promotion, right?
Again, thank you all for the incredibly warm regards - the project has been a tremendous honor, and I am very proud of the article in the OP. By my count as of this posting, there were 514 views/downloads of the article .pdf. (If you hover over it, the view count will appear) Awesome.
-Heie