lhodungu: Soldier / Geek: An Army Science Advisor's Journal of the War in Afghanistan

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Soldier / Geek: An Army Science Advisor's Journal of the War in Afghanistan

Product Description

In 2009, an Army Major deployed a tiny group of specialists to Afghanistan to brand new technologies indispensable to quarrel a war. Traveling from Forward Operating Bases to Combat Outposts, braving rockets and IEDs, fighting a Army bureaucracy some-more than a enemy, this tiny group worked to urge all from robots to mine-resistant trucks, boots, and parachutes. This biography of a team’s deployment provides an insider’s perspective into a lives of deployed soldiers and a formidable appurtenance that delivers new apparatus and weapons to a fight zone.

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Published on: 2012-02-25
Released on: 2012-02-25
Format: Kindle eBook
Number of items: 1

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About a Author

Glenn Dean was consecrated as an Armor officer by a Army ROTC module during a Florida Institute of Technology with a grade in Aerospace Engineering. He was subsequently reserved to operational Armor and Cavalry assignments in a 24th Infantry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, and a 1st Cavalry Division, as good as a debate in Recruiting Command. After completing connoisseur work in Industrial & Systems Engineering during a Georgia Institute of Technology, he transitioned to a Army Acquisition career field. He now works in weapons systems growth and has worked in fight development, module management, and record growth in a fields of tiny arms, middle size cannons, ammunition, and fight vehicles.