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Shattered Minds - How the Pentagon Fails Our Troops with Faulty Helmets (Hardcover)
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Shattered Minds - How the Pentagon Fails Our Troops with Faulty Helmets (Hardcover)
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Shattered Minds is the first book to investigate how American
military bureaucracies have let our troops down by failing to
upgrade one of the most important pieces of personal safety
equipment - the combat helmet. Two longtime employees of North
Dakota defense contractor Sioux Manufacturing discovered that the
required density of the Kevlar material woven into netting of
combat helmets was being shorted. After bringing their discovery to
the attention of management, rather than cleaning up the illegal
practice, their boss accused them of stealing company secrets and
having an adulterous affair. Both employees were fired, leading to
a lawsuit and a judgment they won in court which eventually brought
the company's bad faith practices to light. Around the same time, a
separate whistleblower, retired Navy doctor Robert Meaders, was
pulled into a bizarre and irrational struggle with Army and Marine
bureaucracies when he found out from his Marine grandson that the
protective webbing inside the military helmets provided to troops
was inadequate. Why was the military so resistant to upgrading its
combat equipment, the most essential gear used to protect from
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that plagues soldiers long after their
days of combat? By interweaving these two sets of whistleblowers'
stories, authors Robert Bauman and Dina Rasor explain why the
military, despite news coverage with revelations about these
whistleblowers' personal efforts, continued to do the indefensible.
Using their combined 85 years of knowledge covering and
investigating the Pentagon, the authors try to explain why such a
betrayal of our troops has persisted. They also offer information
on how the public, press, and military departments can fix the
problem and give U.S. troops a better helmet that will help them
survive their service to the United States of America.
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