The remaining DynCorp trucks were packed with guns and men, including two specialists in land-mine and explosives removal: a husky, soft-spoken Samoan named Suani, who often wore a sarong and draped a kaffiyeh over his head, like an Arab sheikh, and Anton, a Croatian from Mostar, who rarely spoke.
The selective pressure of environmental pollution is clearly developing microorganisms that might be harnessed for explosives removal by biotechnological processes.
They discovered that the Serbs had planted 35 to 37 tons of explosives spread over seven different sites on the dam in a way that prevented the explosives' removal; the charges were left in place.
The brigade also created a Combat Logistics Patrol academy, training for combat situations during convoy operations, including improvised explosive device detection and removal, and first aid.
A large chunk of that will go toward the removal of explosives.
Facing a daily assault of over 3 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives detonated at mountaintop removal sites in Appalachia, Coal River Valley residents joined with Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero activists at the entrance of Massey Energy's Marfork mining complex in Pettus, West Virginia on Saturday, May 23rd.
While providing less than 5-85-8percentf our national coal production, the millions of pounds of daily explosives detonated for mountaintop removal operations in West Virginia, Kentucky, southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee account for the most egregious human rights and environmental violations in our nation--and the unrecognized reality of regulated manslaughter.
The authorities in San Diego County burned down a house filled with explosives on Thursday after determining that removal of the volatile clutter of chemicals, detonators and grenades would be too dangerous.
In a separate exercise, a team of bomb disposal officers acted out the removal of an explosive device.
This duty also included detection and removal of Improvised Explosive Devices.
But every move the crowd made set me back half a step, an accumulation of a thousand ingratitudes, the removal of a speck of explosive residue here, the grabbing of the bomber's license plate there.
