Card Game

So in movies (The Hurt Locker, Green Zone), it appears that the wanted level of the Coalition's targets are organized by a deck of cards. For example in Green Zone, Al Rawi is the jack of clubs, and I forget what the guys are in The Hurt Locker. But it just caught my eye as a funny system.

Anyone have more info on this?

The idea is loosely based on what we did during WWII...putting the silhouettes of German and Japanese aircraft and tanks on playing cards and distributing them to GI's. The ones used in Iraq were developed by a couple of boys from the Defense Intelligence Agency then distributed by Central Command.

So it's so that soldiers can recognize and identify targets?

I happen to have a pack of these cards

but basically they are basically so soldiers can recognize the chain of command of the enemy and tell you who is important etc.

I've never heard of that that's really cool....