We lose our jobs if the phones go off while we're on the floor. Supposed to have all electronic devices off and out of sight, as they're really super concerned about anything that potentially could be used to copy customer info.
Not to mention that, from a military standpoint, cell phones are super not secure, and they can be used to track your position via the built-in GPS even if you don't have any access to cell tower pings. Hell, we've got that app on our android phones.
So you get/make a call, they could pick up on it, and now you've just given the enemy a way to track your position! That's ridiculously useful intel, even without a long-range sniper on the team. When it lets you pinpoint where the bloody sniper is then congrats, by bringing your personal phone into the field and taking calls on it, you've just doomed your entire unit.
But I guess it makes for far more gripping cinema if the moronic wife keeps trying to have conversations with him about their marriage instead of letting him devote his full attention to the guys shooting at them
--Mike wandered by just now though and pointed out that they do have secure phones, and that it probably wasn't a personal phone. He says probably she would have called the base and they would have forwarded the call to him so she wouldn't even have needed access to the phone number for it. And of course if it's the same phone that work uses to contact you you're going to answer it.
I don't remember the scene as well as he does but when I said "But then as soon as he realized it wasn't work calling him he should have just said "Can't talk now I'll call you later" and hung up, which Mike says he did try to do but then he dropped the phone. Says while he promised he'd call later and would be fine, they both knew that wasn't a promise he could make, and that when he dropped it, for all she knew it was because he'd just been hit and she was listening to her husband's last moments alive. He found the scene very poignant because of it, so maybe the movie means more to people who have been in the military, I don't know.
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Not to mention that, from a military standpoint, cell phones are super not secure, and they can be used to track your position via the built-in GPS even if you don't have any access to cell tower pings. Hell, we've got that app on our android phones.
So you get/make a call, they could pick up on it, and now you've just given the enemy a way to track your position! That's ridiculously useful intel, even without a long-range sniper on the team. When it lets you pinpoint where the bloody sniper is then congrats, by bringing your personal phone into the field and taking calls on it, you've just doomed your entire unit.
But I guess it makes for far more gripping cinema if the moronic wife keeps trying to have conversations with him about their marriage instead of letting him devote his full attention to the guys shooting at them
--Mike wandered by just now though and pointed out that they do have secure phones, and that it probably wasn't a personal phone. He says probably she would have called the base and they would have forwarded the call to him so she wouldn't even have needed access to the phone number for it. And of course if it's the same phone that work uses to contact you you're going to answer it.
I don't remember the scene as well as he does but when I said "But then as soon as he realized it wasn't work calling him he should have just said "Can't talk now I'll call you later" and hung up, which Mike says he did try to do but then he dropped the phone. Says while he promised he'd call later and would be fine, they both knew that wasn't a promise he could make, and that when he dropped it, for all she knew it was because he'd just been hit and she was listening to her husband's last moments alive. He found the scene very poignant because of it, so maybe the movie means more to people who have been in the military, I don't know.