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However, these small amounts can collect in the atmosphere and in the soil. At one military training site, about 14,700 pounds of hexachloroethane were released to the air over a 2-year period. 

Releases may also occur from the use of this chemical in smoke and pyrotechnic devices. Hexachloroethane content of the smoke devices is about 44.5-46% of the total solid material. The smoke device bums, producing smoke which is mainly zinc chloride, but contains some hexachloroethane. It was estimated that about 0.3-5% of the mass of the reagents in the device is released to air as hexachloroethane in the smoke, assuming a 70% bum efficiency (Katz et al. 1980 Novak et al. 1987). On this basis, it was estimated that during 1982-1984, a maximum of about 6,683 kg (14,700 pounds) of hexachloroethane was released to the atmosphere at Fort Irwin, California, a major military training facility (Novak et al. 1987). Hexachloroethane in smoke (aerosol) was measured in a wind tunnel at concentrations ranging from 0.64-1.26 mg/m3 (average 0.89 mg/m3) (Cataldo et al. 1989). 

Residents or workers near hazardous waste sites containing hexachloroethane wastes or military training areas using smoke or pyrotechnic devices containing hexachloroethane may be exposed to higher than ambient levels. 

U.S. Civil War battlefields, though the latter munitions are usually deteriorated beyond holding any dangerous explosive residue. UXO are also found on former military training facilities, such as Ft. Ord, California, or Kahoolawe, Hawaii. Both these sites have undergone restoration in recent years. 

Many of these same people had military training, and Chandler wondered whether die new business methods they developed were borrowed from the management of men and material in the military. Chandler rejects this hypothesis emphatically (p. 95) ... 

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If smoke is required the blank can be loaded with black powder. Blanks can give the flash and sound of gunfire and can even work the mechanism of a firearm if a blank firing adapter is fitted to constrict the barrel to allow the chamber pressure to be high enough, for the time period required, to operate the moving parts. This is particularly important in military training. 

By way of contrast, some time ago, following a double murder of pohcemen, the German police vowed to dig up the entire military training area of Sennelager if necessary to find the bodies. 

In early days Alfred Nobel already replaced mercury fulminate (MF, see above), which he had introduced into blasting caps, with the safer to handle primary explosives lead azide (LA) and lead styphnate (LS) (Fig. 1.17). However, the long-term use of LA and LS has caused considerable lead contamination in military training grounds which has stimulated world-wide activities in the search for replacements that are heavy-metal free. In 2006 Huynh und Hiskey published a paper proposing iron and copper complexes of the type [cat]2[Mn(NT)4(H20)2] ([cat]+ = NH4, Na+ M = Fe, Cu NT = 5-nitrotetrazolate) as environmentally friendly, green primary explosives (Fig. 1.17) [3]. 

Primary explosives are substances which show a very rapid transition from deflagration to detonation and generate a shock-wave which makes transfer of the detonation to a (less sensitive) secondary explosive possible. Lead azide and lead styphnate are the most commonly used primary explosives today. However, the long-term use of these compounds (which contain the toxic heavy metal lead) has caused considerable lead contamination in military training grounds. Costly clean-up... 

Then the war reached me. I had to report for military training in the Spring of 1944. After the training, I was assigned to the First Military Hospital in Buda. The Hospital Commandant selected me to be his administrative assistant, which meant a lot of paper work, and he also put... 

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Table 22.3 summarizes the types of prominent psychological sequelae that have been observed following natural disasters, chemical spills, military training experiences, the history of land warfare since the beginning of the twentieth century, and the like. 

For military training operations, respirator testing and enemy denial and dispersion use hostage and siege situations civilian peacekeeping... 

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