U.S. Men at War: BlackBerrys and iPads on the Afghan Front

There are almost as many laptops as there are rifles scattered around 2nd Squad's sleeping quarters in the old school at Combat Outpost (COP) Kowall. Mixed in with dust, sand, helmets and 40-mm grenades are Dells and MacBooks. The men who started out in 2001 as Generation Kill have transformed into Generation iPod. As technology has miniaturized and grown more portable, soldiers have