![]() ![]() 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. 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. I’m headed for Aberdeen’s Building 336, where combat vehicles come to. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. A proving ground is a spread of high-security acreage set aside for testing weapons and the vehicles meant to withstand them. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. There are other LightHouses (unaffiliated) which make airplane parts, clocks, and other goods for the federal government, but she was most interested in our plant for its very real and physical connection to our troops. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. In the process of researching Grunt, Roach stumbled upon the LightHouse. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. ![]() ![]() 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. Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. ![]()
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