Army Field Tests

NDRC LABORATORY, DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, TOOELE, UTAH, FLORIDA FIELD TRIALS. Meteorological Program for Shoot No. 1 

Dickinson and Mills proceed directly to Meadow Station taking British anemometers and bivanc. Set up anemometers and bivane and make temperature mast ready. Mills commence measurements and Dickinson take jeep to point on road near L12. 

Kraus go to forest station, prepare temperature mast and bivane and commence measurements. 

Johnston go to station at H3 and start direction and velocity recorders. 

Mark the time on the record paper. Proceed along L row to station at L12 M12 and start recorders. Then go to road and proceed by 

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Malcolm Dole had gone from house to house the previous week to find places that would rent rooms to the NDRC group. I was assigned a room in the sherifTs house, and I moved in the day after we arrived at Bushnell. We had our meals at the local restaurant, except we got in line and ate army chow during army field tests. The army group had set up tents in a flat area just south of Bushnell, where the soldiers slept and ate. Oflficers lived in rented rooms, apartments, or houses in town. 

The lengthy IG report concludes with a detailed account of the field test we conducted in November 1964 at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah (Project Dork). The fact that the request to carry out diis test came via a Department of the Army representative, bearing an urgent requirement to test the feasibility of disseminating BZ to volunteers at distances of 500 and 1,000 yards, seemed to satisfy the IG team that the test was necessary and properly authorized. 

T. J. Novak (United States Dept, of the Army U, ed.), Microspot test methods and field test kit for on-site inspections of chemical agents. US patent 5935862. 19990810. 

During a field test of SABRE technology conducted at the DOD s Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, the U.S. Army Environmental Center evaluated the performance and cost of biotreatment as an alternative to incineration of munitions. Cost projections for this demonstration estimate a unit cost of approximately 300 to 350/yd (D18531T, p. 262). 

Improved rodent reflellants are also an important commercial goal. Dr. M. C. Henry and co-workers at the U.S. Army Laboratories at Natick, Massachusetts, are synthesizing organolead sulfur compounds for test in rodent repellant coatings for electrical cable sheathing. Field tests will be conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior. 

Preliminary laboratory and field tests of the fungus revealed that it has a substantial impact on eurasian watermilfoil. A biotechnology company and the U.S. Army of Engineers have initiated a cooperative agreement to conduct field tests of this fungus. Results of these experiments and definitive tests for determining that no environmental constraints exist will determine whether this organism will become commercially available for biocontrol of eurasian watermilfoil. 

BZ is active when it is given by the intravenous, intramuscular, inhalation, or oral route of administration. The fragmentary data available indicate that the higher dose caused the greatest effects and longest duration. From 1960 to 1969, field tests had been conducted with 3-quinuclidinyl benziiate by the US Army. Sidell s (1982) description of the effects induced by BZ (4.5-17.1 pg/kg) is as follows. 

Aidman Vision Screener. The aidman vision screener is an informal test that can be used to assess the function of the eye by an army medic. The test(s) are function based and result in evacuation recommendations. The tests consist of a near visual acuity test, such as a random E chart or Snellen chart (Figure 6-H), and an Amsler Grid (Figure 6-1) visual field test. For soldiers who report being exposed to a laser source, the aidman screener offers a quick laser injury recognition tool (Table 6-F). 

An army medic takes an x ray of a simulated injury during a field test of an atom-powered portable x-ray unit. Portable x-ray units are powered by thulium, obviating the need for electricity. 

Some 200 tons of smallpox virus have been produced by the USSR as a weapon and inherited by Russia. Their fate is unclear. However, details of the development of smallpox as a weapon by the Soviets became available. A report was elicited from General Prof. Peter Burgasov, former Chief Sanitary Physician of the Soviet Army and a senior researcher within the BWP. Admitting that development of BW by the Soviets did take place, in the form of live field tests, he described a smallpox incident that happened in the 1970s, and was then hashed up On Vozrazhdenie Island in the Aral Sea, the strongest recipes of smallpox were tested. Suddenly I was informed that there were mysterious cases of mortalities in Aralsk. A research ship of the Aral fleet came 15 km away from the island (it was forbidden to come... 

Johnson, L.D., Anear, C.L. (1974). Controlled field tests of expansive soils. US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station Vicksburg MS. 

Recommendation 3,5 For CBD products to be viable for fielding, the Deput> Undersecretary of the Army for Test and Evaluation (DUSA(T E)) should require that (I) T E activities be based on testing protocols that accurately emulate actual operating environments (both threat properties and operator employment) and (2) independent review s of testing protocols be conducted. 

Recommendation 3.5 For CBD products to be viable for fielding, the Deputy Undersecretary of the Army for Test and Evaluation (DU A(T E)) should require that ... 

In January 1993 CW (sulphur mustard) was discovered in the residential Washington, DC neighbourhood of Spring Valley. From 1917 to 1919 the United States Army conducted field testing of CW munitions on part of the campus of American University. Since 1993 several hundred CW munitions have been recovered. It is uncertain how many remain. In 2005 remediation work focused on an area near American University where ordnance related items and at least 15 sealed glass bottles were recovered. The bottles were found to contain suspected degradation products of sulphur mustard [11]. Clean-up operations were expected to cost approximately 165 million and continue until 2010 [12]. 

Careers in artillery are limited to the military and weapons research, development, and testing. The U.S. Army Field Artillery School teaches members of the military to nse cannons, rockets, and missiles in coordination with combined arms operations. Nonmilitary careers in artillery design and testing require degrees in engineering, physics, or materials sciences. Most jobs are with lar e defense contractors such as Lockheed-Martin, BAE Systems Bofors, or Raytheon, or governmental s encies snch as the Defense Advanced Research Projects j ency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense. 

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