I wonder if they put butter on his wounds.
An airman received second-degree burns April 4 during a test of the Defense Department’s nonlethal millimeter-wave heat beam at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., according to Marine Corps Maj. Sarah Fullwood, spokeswoman for the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator program, Quantico, Va.
The airman was burned as the Air Force’s 820th Security Forces Group was testing a demonstrator version of the Active Denial System, a Humvee-mounted system that produces an intense heat beam.
He was being treated at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Ga., and is expected to make a full recovery, Fullwood said.
Fullwood said more than 600 people have been exposed a total of more than 10,000 times to the beam, and there has only been one other injury that required medical attention: a case of second-degree burns that occurred during lab testing in 1999.
“We are going to investigate this and conduct a thorough evaluation. The extended user evaluation has been put on hold until the investigation in complete,” Fullwood said.
She said the ADS program would continue after the investigation.
Formal acquisition of the system is planned for 2010.
Protestors, keep that foil handy. The time will come, very shortly, when you’ll need it more than ever.
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QOTD
But I still believe
And I will rise up with fists!!
when experiencing burning,
“humanity” is the first thing to come to my mind. let me stick my hand into this fire, MLK and Gandhi are sure to appear.
hmmm…there’s a joke here, but i haven’t had enough coffee to articulate it properly.
Not to mention the
Not to mention the terrifying incidence of cataracts. Of course, that won’t show up till later on, and then the VA can blow him off. I hope they issued him his tin cup.
Damn it, why ...
didn’t they send him to the burn unit at Kelly AFB …
oh, wait. That would be the place where USAF docs work on USAF patients. Must’ve been defunded by now.
Bush and Cheney should be microwaved to failure.
I just don’t want to have to clean out the tank, afterwards.
Hmm. Nice of Army Times to include a picture.
First thing I thought of when I saw that “Active Denial System” screen atop that vehicle, was the opening credits for “Futurama.” Where the names are run on the big video screen in the midst of downtown Year 3000 New York?
And at the end of the credits the spaceship flies in, mis-aligns its course and slams smack into the middle of said screen, cracking it all to splinters and making it go black?
Dunno why such a thought would enter my mind. No idea at all, no sirreee.