An Air Force crew in California demonstrates the intelligence technology. First Lt. Jamie Christopher is in the foreground. Max Whittaker for The New York Times

“As a teenager, Jamie Christopher would tap instant messages to make plans with friends, and later she became a Facebook regular.

Now a freckle-faced 25, a first lieutenant and an intelligence officer here, she is using her social networking skills to hunt insurgents and save American lives in Afghanistan”

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