iPad App Reviews: Army Ranger Handbook For The Best of The Best

Posted Sep 4, 2010 at 1:46AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: iPad App Reviews Tags: apple, army rangers handbook

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For ‘Army Ranger’ read ‘Danger’: these units are the ones called upon to parachute into enemy territory on personnel recovery missions, covert operations and military-style espionage. Army Ranger Handbook takes you from the basics of undercover invisibility and survival right through to battle tactics. It assumes that rangers will find themselves left to their own devices behind enemy lines and gives an ample framework of information designed to sustain life and complete mission objectives. Learn how to construct shelters in various inaccessible terrains. Other life-support advice includes creating and maintaining a source of fire, water and food. As the ranger remit is ostensibly one of covert military action, a great deal of space is devoted to evasion and survival techniques found in fully searchable chapters. Pages contain informative text alongside intricate images of themed projects, for example pyramid-style fire building. The chapter headings give you a clue as to what’s on offer in this app: patrols, battle drills, waterborne operations, vehicle convoy operations to name but a few. Each chapter is filled with incredible detail, some of which I am frankly surprised at finding in the public arena. For example, under battle drills there is a section on how to enter and secure a building, complete with diagrammatic illustrations and textual instructions. I wonder if the same tactics could be employed by criminals robbing a gas station? As with the other apps in this military series offered by Double Dog Studios, Army Ranger Handbook is a thrilling read whether or not you are a member of the armed forces. Discovering just what these guys are trained to do is enthralling and slightly alarming at times. However, it’s also reassuring that such elite troops exist to  protect nation and democracy. Army Ranger Handbook is available for $2.99 from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/army-ranger-handbook/id378163411?mt=8#

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