Shattered minds : how the Pentagon fails our troops with faulty helmets / Robert H. Bauman and Dina Rasor ; foreword by Perry Jefferies.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:[Lincoln, NE] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019]وصف:xxv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781640120365 (cloth : alk. paper)
- How the Pentagon fails our troops with faulty helmets
- United States. Department of Defense -- Procurement -- Corrupt practices
- Helmets -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Head -- Wounds and injuries -- United States -- Prevention
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Equipment -- Quality control
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Procurement -- Corrupt practices
- UC503 .B38 2019
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | UC503 .B38 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000052964 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | UC503 .B38 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000052963 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hard headed Marines -- Twisted logic -- Moment of truth -- Blowback -- Whistleblower's nightmare -- The tinkerer and his unique foam -- Mr. Helmet -- Shut out -- Cost more important than the troops -- Search for justice -- The New York lawyer -- Operation helmet becomes a force -- Feds move in -- Breakthrough for the troops -- Small victory, large defeat -- Army resistance -- Cut and paste -- Damage control -- Negotiation -- Settlement -- Just give me what I want -- Kafkaesque nightmare -- Fallout -- Delamination -- Won't work unless you wear it -- Intransigent -- Too little, too late -- Back to the future -- The bureaucratic wall -- Epilogue.
"The first book to examine this most basic item of military equipment, Shattered Minds features the stories of two sets of whistleblowers determined to expose the truth about the failures of the military helmet bureaucracy."--Provided by publisher.