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		patrickk on Dec 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potenti... It might not work for the military specifically, but for browser based forms, Lastpass has a form fill feature: https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/fill-form-basics/ I'm sure it's possible to hack together an AHK script[1], combined with Pulover's macro creator[2] to automate virtually anything repetitive on a Windows PC, or use Selenium to automate browser actions[3]. Of course then you run the risk of having to fall into the classic XKCD automation time sink[4]. [1] http://ahkscript.org/ [2] http://www.macrocreator.com/ [3] http://www.seleniumhq.org/ [4] https://xkcd.com/1319/

mason240 on Dec 9, 2016 [–]

It's mostly paper.

gluggymug on Dec 10, 2016 | [–]

Can't they just use their dog tags like an ink stamp or something? It is supposed to be enough to ID them right?

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