The Women Of Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Author : April Cobos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166695103X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal written by April Cobos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Cyborg, Techno-Bodies, Situated Knowledge, and Vibrant Materiality in Military Cultures addresses the disparities between policy discourse and the lived experiences of women in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal community who these policies seek to regulate through a rhetorical framework. During the Global War on Terrorism, the changing contexts of war brought the community to the forefront of combat preceding the 2016 policy repeal restricting women’s service in combat, which positioned these women at a poignant moment in history. Their positioning also sheds light on the challenges twenty-first century scholars face in analyzing shifting gender roles in the workplace with policies advocating for gender equality, which often buries continued gendered ideologies and discourse. This book takes a mixed methods approach of qualitative and quantitative data from surveys, available government documents, and other cultural artifacts to create a more triangulated analysis. While this book is rooted in rhetorical analysis, its dynamic nature demands using an interdisciplinary approach that pulls from discourse analysis, political, historical, and military scholarship, and other humanities-based feminist scholarship.

Author : Joseph E. Shaffer (III)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789798358159
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsung written by Joseph E. Shaffer (III) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is based on in-depth interviews with the dedicated men and women of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community of the United States Navy, operators and technicians who quietly undertake some of the most dangerous work performed by members of the American military. It is also based on heartfelt interviews with the families of these brave and dedicated sailors - noting their stresses, their pride, their successes, and sadly, their struggles, and their grief." -- Back cover.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Issues written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Center (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Center written by Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin King
Publisher : Janes Information Group
ISBN 13 : 9780710627520
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane's Explosive Ordinance Disposal written by Colin King and published by Janes Information Group. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete source for anyone involved with explosive ordnance disposal assessing all categories of potential unexploded ordnance. Includes coverage and reviews of related equipment, specifications, status and contractor, full contact details and analysis of explosives and propellants.

Author : Jeffrey M. Leatherwood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443838381
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine from Aberdeen written by Jeffrey M. Leatherwood and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tunisia with II Corps, Lt. John Randall locates a downed German plane and demolishes two live bombs still mounted on the wreckage … In Italy, Capt. Ronald Felton’s team contends with dreaded “Butterfly Bombs” left behind to menace the US 5th Army … Landing with the 6th US Special Engineers Brigade, Capt. Jesse Donovan’s squad braves deadly 88mm shells in pursuit of enemy rockets on Utah Beach … Serving with the 9th Army Air Force in France, Capt. Thomas Reece survives a close encounter with a German landmine … Capt. Joseph Pilcher joins in the 78th Infantry’s final assault on a dam guarding the approaches to Germany … Sweeping the 11th Airborne Division’s trail on Luzon, Lt. Carl Cirocco’s team is ambushed by the Japanese … Capt. Richard Metress is dispatched to tackle enemy depth charges for the 19th Infantry Regiment on Mandog Hill … Capt. Clifford Sarauw covers the US 10th Army’s fateful landing on Okinawa … These aforementioned exploits are among the notable events contained in Nine from Aberdeen, the first academic history solely devoted to the US Army’s Ordnance Bomb Disposal Branch from World War II. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, nine US Army officers and sergeants were sent from Aberdeen Proving Ground to war-torn England in order to learn the invaluable technical skills pioneered by the British Royal Engineers. Led by the colorful Thomas J. Kane, these nine men inaugurated the new Ordnance Bomb Disposal School. Conceived initially for homeland defense, Col. Kane’s branch eventually fielded over two hundred Army and Air Force bomb squads for overseas service. These courageous officers and men were forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists, responsible for supporting the US military during combat operations and for preserving the lives of noncombatants at all other times. Using documents and photographs – many from personal collections – as well as oral interviews, this work presents a cross-section of US Army and Air Force operations spanning three major theaters: Mediterranean, European, and the Pacific. Special emphasis is given to the European Theater, where Col. Kane served as Gen. Eisenhower’s chief ETO bomb disposal officer. Nine from Aberdeen also contains charts detailing campaign participations, ordnance statistics, and other significant data. Command Sergeant Major James H. Clifford (Retired), military consultant for the award-winning film, The Hurt Locker, provides an afterword on the continuity of modern EOD.

Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385536216
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Walk written by Brian Castner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming. Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the Long Walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But The Long Walk is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. His thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within—the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as “normal”? The Long Walk will hook you from the very first sentence, and it will stay with you long after its final gripping page has been turned.

Author : Richard F. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effects of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Armor on the Gross Body Mobility, Psychomotor Performance, Speech Intelligibility, and Visual Field of Men and Women written by Richard F. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four commercially-available explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) suits were evaluated in order to determine their effects on the wearer's gross body mobility, psychomotor performance, speech intelligibility, and visual field. Six Army enlisted men and six Army enlisted women were tested under six conditions: (1) fatigues and combat boots, (2) fatigues and combat boots with infantry armor vest and helmet, (3) Commercial A EOD armor, (4) Commercial B EOD armor, (5) Commercial C EOD armor, and (6) Commercial D EOD armor. Although different in design, each EOD suit consisted of a helmet, faceshield, torso armor, and upper and lower extremity armor. Commercial A and B EOD armor provided better mobility, psychomotor performance, speech intelligibility and field of vision than did Commercial C and D EOD armor. All four EOD suits were equivalent in terms of the wearer's ability to hear human speech accurately. Overall, test subject performance was best in Commercial A EOD armor and poorest in Commercial D EOD armor. There were no important differences between men and women in terms of ability to operate within the EOD suits.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.6C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Esposito
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401396410
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bomb Squad written by Richard Esposito and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the men who protect us from the most frightening prospect of life in the age of terrorism "In my mind it's all business; I don't worry about my family, I don't worry about a function that I'm doing after work, I just worry about what's at hand. And what's at hand is that package." -- Detective First Grade Joe Putkowski, NYPD Bomb Squad The New York City Police Department Bomb Squad is the oldest such squad in the nation, founded in 1903. Each year its thirty-three members make more than two hundred stress-filled "bomb runs," in which they check suspicious briefcases, defuse hand grenades, and even respond to "art" projects constructed with real explosives. The public rarely sees these men--and when they do, it's usually from a distance, telephoto pictures of helmeted figures in ninety-pound suits of Kevlar armor. Starting on December 31, 2003, in the heart of the New Year's Eve action in Times Square, journalists Richard Esposito and Ted Gerstein had exclusive access to the nation's most elite police unit for an entire year. Their often chilling, never-before-told tales from the front line provide an extraordinary view of the domestic war on terrorism.