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Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War (Paperback)
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Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
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Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most
challenging adversaries-panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-and
introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary
Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team
as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She
visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and
learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a
repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine
Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp
Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a
threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs
an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all
night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine
USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on
the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding
gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors
than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you'll never see
our nation's defenders in the same way again.
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