Shattered Minds : How the Pentagon Fails Our Troops with Faulty Helmets.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Authors' Note -- 1. Hard-Headed Marines -- 2. Twisted Logic -- 3. Moment of Truth -- 4. Blowback -- 5. Whistleblower's Nightmare -- 6. The Tinkerer and His Unique Foam -- 7. Mr. Helmet -- 8. Shut Out -- 9. Cost More Important Than the Troops? -- 10. Search for Justice -- 11. The New York Lawyer -- 12. Operation Helmet Becomes a Force -- 13. Feds Move In -- 14. Breakthrough for the Troops -- 15. Small Victory, Large Defeat -- 16. Army Resistance -- 17. Cut and Paste -- 18. Damage Control -- 19. Negotiation -- 20. Settlement -- 21. Just Give Me What I Want -- 22. Kafkaesque Nightmare -- 23. Fallout -- 24. Delamination -- 25. Won't Work Unless You Wear It -- 26. Intransigent -- 27. Too Little, Too Late -- 28. Back to the Future -- 29. The Bureaucratic Wall -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
9781640121676
United States.-Department of Defense-Procurement-Corrupt practices. Helmets-United States-History-21st century. Head-Wounds and injuries-United States-Prevention. United States-Armed Forces-Equipment-Quality control. United States-Armed Forces-Procurement-Corrupt practices.