Soldier's Blue Book

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This Soldier's Blue Book is the Army guide for Initial Entry Training Soldiers
The Soldier's Blue Book dates back to General Washington tasking Baron von Steuben with transforming the men at Valley Forge into a disciplined fighting Army.

For the first time in history, the Blue Book is a mobile phone app for IET (initial entry training) Soldiers.

This app is a representation of TRADOC PAM 600-4.

This one has an interesting story. The app is based on TRADOC 600-4. The newest version was finalized on 3 June. A few days before that, a draft copy was sent to the TRADOC Commander with the postscript that for the first time in history, the Blue Book will be available in a mobile app. This implied task very quickly got to me, so I spent 2 days and had the first copy of the app complete and on the Android Marketplace. Update: Added links to audio for a few of the chapters - connects to the Internet (not what I want in the final version, but a good enough bridge for now).

The iPhone app took a little longer to get to market. Among other things, the time that it takes to get approved by Apple was in factor, plus, we wanted to do more with it. The main difference between version 1.0 of iPhone and version 1.0 of Android is that we added audio files to accompany 13 of the chapters (including adding 2 additional chapters for new bugle calls) and added an Army Strong video that can be accessed from the about page. And we made the color of the pages blue (which was, at first, an accident, but grew on me after a day or so).

iPhone (Soldier's Blue Book)

  Date Released on iPhone: 6/29/2010
iPhone Downloads: 44278
Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-army-soldiers-blue-book/id378978355?mt=8

Screenshots for Soldier's Blue Book on iPhone


Cover
 

Table of Contents

Enlisted Insignia
 

Awards and Decorations

Blue Book History
 

About

Android (Soldier's Blue Book)

  Date Released on Android: 6/6/2010
Android Downloads: 70150

Screenshots for Soldier's Blue Book on Android


Cover
 

Table of Contents

Enlisted Insignia