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Garden, soil and God: Miss. soldier's recipe for Nobel nomination
Fox News ^ | November 2, 2014 | Kyle Rothenberg

Posted on 11/02/2014 8:37:54 AM PST by Liaison

The last thing Randy Sandifer imagined when he was working in the yard alongside his father was that one day he would find himself halfway around the world - in the midst of a war - and later nominated for a Noble Peace Prize. ---break--- Sandifer joined the Army Reserves in December 2001 and deployed to Iraq after his sophomore year at the University of Mississippi. He was sent as an administrative clerk with the 412th Theater Engineer Command, but he volunteered to work with the soil lab and the environmental team, cleaning up pollutants left by U.S. forces. It was his work testing hydrocarbon levels near the local water supply at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison that got him nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Sandifer points out in addition to mistreatment of people, the environment also suffered.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: environment; military; nobel
This guy wins the Nobel for monitoring a Iraqi pollution issue that was begun long before the US forces took over Abu Grab to enforce U.S. EPA standards? Abu Grab was a rotten place before we got there; an environmental mess and even worse management. The military does try to clean up messes they inherit or make but this was another jab at the United States by a Nobel committee.
1 posted on 11/02/2014 8:37:54 AM PST by Liaison
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To: Liaison

Sorry, I said he already received the noble while he was only nominated. The average sergeant does the same thing as this soldier did in ensuring we take care of our hydro/ petrochemical messes.


2 posted on 11/02/2014 8:47:12 AM PST by Liaison (qwesa)
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“Nominee” is probably as far as this man gets, unless he can produce a reliably democrat voting record. Besides, he actually accomplished something, unlike the two most infamous recent US recipients.


3 posted on 11/02/2014 11:20:22 AM PST by DPMD
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