Originally Posted by Rochard

That's correct, yet nearly all of the modern technology we have today is because of the US military. Nearly everything the US military does has civilian applications.

Let's see if I can blow your mind.... You've heard about them raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, right? That picture was printed in Guam and then TRANSMITTED to New York. You read that right - Before nearly anyone had a television, before the fax machine existed, the United States military had the ability to send photos via radio waves. Across oceans. LOL.

GPS, satellite radio, the microwave, nuclear power, canned food, nylons, epi pens, Penicillin, radar, air travel, super glue, computers, digital photography....