Shattered Minds

How the Pentagon Fails Our Troops with Faulty Helmets

Robert H. Bauman, Dina Rasor (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2019
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-036-5 (ISBN)

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The first book to examine this most basic item of military equipment, Shattered Minds features the stories of two sets of whistleblowers determined to expose the truth about the failures of the military helmet bureaucracy.

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 the netting of combat helmets was being shorted. After bringing their discovery to the attention of management, their boss, rather than cleaning up the illegal practice, accused them of having an adulterous affair. Both employees were fired, leading to a lawsuit and a court judgment in their favor that eventually brought the company’s bad-faith practices to light. Around the same time, a separate whistleblower, a retired Navy doctor, was pulled into a bizarre struggle with Army and Marine bureaucracies when he discovered from his Marine grandson that the protective webbing inside the military helmets was inadequate. Why was the military so resistant to upgrading the most essential piece of gear to protect soldiers from traumatic brain injury?

Interweaving these two whistleblower stories, Robert H. Bauman and Dina Rasor explain why the military, despite news coverage and congressional hearings on the faulty helmet, continued to do the indefensible. They also suggest how the public, the press, and military institutions can remedy the problem to give U.S. troops effective helmets when serving to protect their country.

Robert H. Bauman is a former investigator for the Naval Investigative Service and Defense Criminal Investigative Service. He co-founded the Bauman and Rasor Group with Dina Rasor. He is the coauthor with Rasor of Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War. Dina Rasor is an investigator, journalist, and author. She founded the Project on Military Procurement (now called the Project on Government Oversight) to serve as a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog over military and related government spending. She has also worked with whistleblowers on fraud suits and authored a column on government solutions. She is the author of The Pentagon Underground and Pentagon Solutions: How to Actually Get Control of Defense Spending.

Foreword, by Perry Jefferies
Introduction
Abbreviations
Authors' Note
1. Hard-Headed Marines
2. Twisted Logic
3. Moment of Truth
4. Blowback
5. Whistleblower's Nightmare
6. The Tinkerer and His Unique Foam
7. Mr. Helmet
8. Shut Out
9. Cost More Important Than the Troops?
10. Search for Justice
11. The New York Lawyer
12. Operation Helmet Becomes a Force
13. Feds Move In
14. Breakthrough for the Troops
15. Small Victory, Large Defeat
16. Army Resistance
17. Cut and Paste
18. Damage Control
19. Negotiation
20. Settlement
21. Just Give Me What I Want
22. Kafkaesque Nightmare
23. Fallout
24. Delamination
25. Won't Work Unless You Wear It
26. Intransigent
27. Too Little, Too Late
28. Back to the Future
29. The Bureaucratic Wall
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2018
Vorwort	Perry Jefferies
Zusatzinfo	8 photographs, index
Verlagsort	Dulles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-64012-036-X / 164012036X
ISBN-13	978-1-64012-036-5 / 9781640120365
Zustand	Neuware