Wow. Army PSYOPS has come a long way from running a local radio station in Kosovo and dumping flyers out the back of a C-130.
Now they're chatting on Reddit and 4chan.

Everyone seems to forget that Russia was in NATO's Partnership for Peace program.
Back in 1999 we invaded Kosovo to stop the war there.
After the Brits finished having their fiasco with the Russian Army at the airport, the Russian Army setup a base camp of their own on the border of Kosovo and Serbia. Since at that time we were homies with each other, we let them shop at our PX facilities on Camps Monteith and Bondsteel.
Could not keep stereos, TVs, and tracksuits in stock at those places. Every day a Russian BRDM would roll in, Russians would pile out the back and pretty much pillage the PX on Monteith since it was located closer to their camp.
Some "genius" decided to do a swap program and send an officer and enlisted guy to live with the Russians for a month.
Oh. My. God. The horror...the horror...
All of their equipment was ANCIENT and they did little to no PMCS (Preventative Maintenance, Checks, and Services).
Most of the soldiers were either drunk or hungover.
Every weekend they'd bus in hookers from Serbia. The camp commander had his mistress living with him.
Living conditions were atrocious. I lived better in a Camp Colt mud pit in Bosnia back in '95 when we spent a year living in medical tents.
Their "road checkpoint" at the border was a complete joke due to drunk and hungover soldiers who would constantly just sleep on the job.

Yeah, I'm just not frightened of the Big Bad Ivan at all. He ceased to exist as soon as the wall came down.

What you have now are a bunch of oligarchs and generals who have gotten filthy rich stealing from their country's military budget.

This is hilarious for all sorts of reasons but it does bring back memories for me.
In 1993 I was a PFC and doing my first NTC rotation with the 3rd ACR.
1SG's humvee had just had a SLGR installed in it and every logpac each tank would send over the loader (or driver if 3-man crew - thanks, Clinton) to refill their water cans, grab any boxes of MREs needed, and to get the 10-digit grid to their current location so the Tank Commander (TC) could verify our location on the map.

Fast-forward to 1995 and I'm in Germany and we're prepping to invade Bosnia.
The PLGR GPS systems had just been issued to each tank and almost no one really knew how to use them. At that time I had an ancient Garmin GPSIII that I was using after switching it over to use MGRS instead of LAT/LONG. We'd use the PLGR to keep track of our exact 10-digit grid for paper map purposes but we'd use the Garmin to lead the platoon around Hoenfels, especially since I had loaded a rough map of the training area on the Garmin. the PLGR had no moving map display.

Nowadays the M1A2 tanks have nice moving map displays inside the tank, but back in the 90s and 00s we were still on the M1A1 Heavy which didn't have that fancy-pants stuff.

So yeah, it's entirely believable that Russian attack jet pilots had civilian GPS units duct-taped to their instrument panel.

Seriously folks, if you've never served in today's modern military then don't you dare pretend to know what you're talking about when it comes to things like this. Army Knowledge Online (AKO) has been around for more than a decade. I was one of the first "beta testers" for AKO and it's a damn fine system as well as one of the world's largest private online portals. Slashdot pales in comparison to the total number of users AKO has. It's so good that the DoD has made it the new portal for all DoD employees and family members, and it's changing it's name to DKO (Defense Knowledge Online). You ladies have to remember one thing: DoD != George Bush All members of the U.S. Army are REQUIRED to have an AKO account and a valid AKO email address. All family members of U.S. Army soldiers are also allowed to have their own logins and email accounts via AKO. There's even an online instant messenger (using Bantu no less) that works across pretty much any OS out there. SO this bullshit claim by the original poster that AKO is "restricted" somehow and that soldiers won't see the new changes is absurd. Matter of fact, probably right now somewhere in the ME where I am there are probably briefings being given by signal command personnel to both commanders and soldiers about the changes. Every 6 months all soldiers go through a special "dealing with the media" class and these same issues are brought up. Those classes were being mandated even during my first (out of three) Bosnia deployment in '95. Slashdot, you're pretty damn good at covering topics unrelated to active duty military life, but you know nothing about active duty military life. I might not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Every soldier knows that phrase because they've heard it at one time or another from an officer or sergeant and knows it pertains only to the civilians not to themselves. The soldier knows he's to defend civilians and their rights at the cost of his or her own freedoms.