To: Republic Rocker
The other thing is the final testing on this stuff is assuredly not going to be done by the Marines.
I don't mean to insult the Marines or anything, but they're a "lean and mean" fighting force with a lot fewer of the specialist troops even the Army has. I'm sure they have people that can test for nuclear materials but I really seriously doubt they have a vastly-experienced highly-educated nuclear exploitation team.
If this was Prine talking to people from NEST or the Department of Energy or the NRC that had been brought in, I'd be a lot more confident.
The problem is people from NEST or DoE or the NRC would almost certainly not talk to embedded reporters wandering around in the middle of their testing.
To: John H K
I don't mean to insult the Marines or anything, but they're a "lean and mean" fighting force with a lot fewer of the specialist troops even the Army has. I'm sure they have people that can test for nuclear materials but I really seriously doubt they have a vastly-experienced highly-educated nuclear exploitation team.Actually, they do--one of the previous Commandant's initiatives was to grab the NBC event first response mission.
401 posted on
04/10/2003 1:21:28 PM PDT by
Poohbah
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