| No matter what line of work you are in, you | | | | what is going on around them. With a GPS Crisis |
| never quite know when Crisis might strike, and | | | | Management solution in place they can have eyes |
| when that Crisis Management Plan that you have | | | | looking over them from afar, advising them of |
| been putting together and tweaking for the last 5 | | | | advancing enemy troops and hopefully finding |
| years might need to be called upon. | | | | them a passage to safety. |
| You never really know what to expect with a | | | | Another example of GPS tracking within a war |
| crisis, and each crisis brings about its own set of | | | | zone is on a convoy. Convoys could be |
| challenges. It's important that any Crisis | | | | transporting anything from troops to food, and |
| Management plan can adapt to these situations. | | | | the enemy soldiers will do everything in their |
| One of the static variables in Crisis Management is | | | | power to disrupt this. With a convoy-tracking |
| the use of GPS technology. | | | | device in place the central command post can |
| It may sound like simple common sense, but | | | | ensure that the convoy keeps moving through a |
| management of Crisis in hostile situations in | | | | safe passage to its destination. |
| remote locations is massively aided by the use of | | | | We tend to take GPS devices for granted these |
| Global Positioning Satellite technology. | | | | days, having satellite navigation technology in our |
| Through the use of handheld tracking and | | | | phones and cars, but there is real, life saving value |
| communication devices, vehicle tracking devices, | | | | in these devices when it comes to hostile |
| aircraft tracking devices and maritime tracking | | | | situations and managing crisis. It makes you |
| devices your central command post can monitor | | | | wonder how wars were fought without it |
| and advise from a safe distance with reliable | | | | because it seems incomprehensible that troops on |
| intelligence to relay to troops on the ground. | | | | the ground would be out there operating, |
| For example, a group of soldiers on the ground | | | | effectively blind to what is going on around them |
| might be trapped in a compound. Without GPS | | | | and where the enemy are positioned. |
| tracking they are totally blind and unaware of | | | | |