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The latest equipment that’s making its way in the U.S. Army is the IPod touch. It’s being used primarily as a translation tool. It also functions as an important communication tool that provides every soldier with intelligence information. Since the IPod was developed by Apple, a lot of savings was made from taxpayers since we didn’t have to pay anything in its development.

The need for a good translation device is needed in Afghanistan and Iraq where most of our soldiers are stationed. Due to the language barrier, communication was a major problem the solution? Instead of having a contractor come up with a device, the IPod touch was used instead.