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Shattered minds : how the Pentagon failed our troops with faulty helmets / Robert H. Bauman and Dina Rasor ; foreword by Perry Jefferies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauman, Robert (Robert H.), 1941- author.
- Rasor, Dina, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Procurement--Corrupt practices.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- Helmets--United States--History--21st century.
- Helmets.
- Armed Forces.
- Corruption.
- Head--Wounds and injuries.
- Quality control.
- History.
- United States--Armed Forces--Equipment--Quality control.
- Head--Wounds and injuries--United States--Prevention.
- Head.
- United States--Armed Forces--Procurement--Corrupt practices.
- Armed Forces--Equipment--Quality control.
- Armed Forces--Procurement--Corrupt practices.
- Head--Wounds and injuries--Prevention.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- How the Pentagon failed our troops with faulty helmets
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, NE : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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 & 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781640120365
- 164012036X
- OCLC:
- 1051779978
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