Actually it was generally considered strange and a pain in the ass when your soldiers didn't have a cell phone. This is the most common way the leadership teams would communicate with their soldiers during my term, as a matter of fact. read more
I don’t know necessarily about going to Afghanistan or Iraq but as a Marine deployed on a MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit) going all over the Pacific (Philippines, Singapore, Japan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman and Kuwait). read more