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Reclaiming The Land: A Veteran Revisits Vietnam, J.S. Chadwck
Reclaiming The Land: A Veteran Revisits Vietnam, J.S. Chadwck
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
When is a war really over? When the peace treaties are signed and the armies withdrawn? Or, when ordnance left over from the fighting is no longer killing people? If the answer to the last question is yes, then the Vietnam War is still going on. In Vietnam today people are being killed, or wounded on a daily basis by ordnance left behind by a conflict that should have ended 24 years ago. Most of those people are children. Throughout the Vietnamese countryside there are tens of thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO). These UXO run the gamut from …
Mechanical Assistance Systems For Humanitarian Mine & Uxo Clearance, Roger Hess
Mechanical Assistance Systems For Humanitarian Mine & Uxo Clearance, Roger Hess
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Removing the phrase "Mechanical Mine Clearance " from humanitarian demining terminology was an issue that gained approval from most during the Karlsruhe Conference. The amount of money spent within the last few years on systems that are now in the advanced stages of rigor mortis is staggering. Now there seems to be many questions about what is an acceptable standard for the new definition of "Mechanically Assisted Demining". In some perspectives the answer is fairly clear, but in others it is as dark as Turkish coffee.
Peacetrees Vietnam's Uxo Clearance Training Mission To Quang Tri Province, Roger Hess
Peacetrees Vietnam's Uxo Clearance Training Mission To Quang Tri Province, Roger Hess
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The president of UXB International, Dr. Richmond Dugger, had offered to help out an NGO called PeaceTrees Vietnam with their efforts to clear land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the former demilitarized zone between what was North & South Vietnam. We would conduct a training course for the Vietnamese with UXB International covering the wages and airfare of two senior Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) employees, and donate five Shonstedt ferrous ordnance detectors.