Lance Cpl. John Kim, an M-249 squad automatic machine gunner, Alpha, 4th LAR, uses a retina scanner. The hand held scanner is capable of interagency identification. Don't be HO HUM complacent about this technology. One of things that totally pisses me off the deep end is how we, the we as in leading the frigin world in technology, become braille blind to using this technology to help our Marines. A post from Feb. 2007 illustrates this point:"Major West, along with Spirit of America, a technology company called CDI, and (Bill Roggio), fielded "The Snake Eater," a biometric device that photographs, fingerprints and stores data about captured suspected insurgents, and then builds a networked picture on their family, history and activities."Ok rant over....That was then and this is now....retinography and our 4th LAR
Retinography is used for identifying people by the pattern of blood vessels on the retina (the innermost coat of the back part of the eye). It requires the use of a special scanner about the size of a shoe-box that can map the unique pattern of blood vessels on the retina. The pattern is so complex that even identical twins do not have the same blood vessel configuration. Those who favor its use claim retinography has an error rate of only one in a million.4th LAR Marines are learning to use the detection equipment under instruction of Michael Jelensky, a biometric adviser with the tactical training exercise control group, during training Sept. 12, 2009, at 29 Stumps, Calif.photo CWO2 Keith A. Stevenson
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