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| zinjanthropos |
 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: One of the Toughest Jobs in the World |
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Forum Ph.D.
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Saw a documentary the other day about some guys in France whose job it is to find and destroy old ordnance. They get a lot of help from citizens who stumble upon old bombs and the like, everything from old grenades to large unexploded shells that still litter the countryside. It sounded like they call these guys munitioneers. Every now and then one of them gets killed along with a farmer or two out plowing their fields.
One of the more interesting segments showed a piece of shrapnel from an old shell they exploded. On the outside, rusty as hell but the inside was pristine, as if it had just been machined yesterday. They say there is enough of this stuff lying around to provide work for these guys for the several decades . At the time of filming they had succeeded in clearing 25% of the country. |
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:21 am Post subject: |
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The Doctor
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I feel sorry for people travelling about in the Channel and other places in the sea. There are still quite a few mines out there.
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| Zitterbewegung |
| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:36 am Post subject: |
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You get to dig out ole explosives and detonated them in a remote area?? Seems like one of the coolest jobs in the world. YIPPIE-KAY-Yeah MoFo!!
On a less interesting side note.....just a couple of years back one farmer in the area I come from died because he bought a new plough that was going in deeper than his old one. Really sucked that this was the depth where this 250-pound bomb was burried. KABLAMMO!
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| thomson2008 |
| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: One of the toughest job in the world |
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A career diplomat with the Norwegian foreign service, Eide served with the UN as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to deliver a comprehensive review of Kosovo in 2005 and as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997-1998. Eide is currently Political Director of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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| kojax |
| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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Instead of trying to make a (largely un-enforceable) law against anyone using land mines to begin with, maybe the UN should simply require that all landmines have a built in self destruct timer.
That way they're useful for however long the war itself is likely to last, but people don't have to worry about them for so many years afterward during peace time.
It's not a perfect idea, however, because of course some of them might malfunction, but it seems more realistic to try and regulate the problem than to try and stop it entirely. |
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