The Android-based MOD Live ships with four new, industry first applications: Buddy Tracking, Smartphone Connectivity, a Navigation app pre-loaded with the largest database of trail maps in the world, Music Playlist Mode, and Camera Connectivity for use in the future with select wireless point-of-view action cameras.

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They said it would make it harder for the MoD to ask for additional funding if it could not manage its existing assets - and said it was "wholly unsatisfactory" that the MoD expected it to take another two to four years to sort out.

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After approving my loan mod in 2010, they said that after three or four payments at the new payment my trial would be approved, and my loan MODIFIED according to the HAMP program.

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Colonel Peter Warden, from the MoD team introducing the new weapon, says that after well over four decades in service, the pistol from US manufacturer Browning was no longer the ideal weapon and had become increasingly expensive to maintain.

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