[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: MMR (MA) robots

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Robots unearth explosives at Cape base

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
June 26, 2008

CAMP EDWARDS — William Dean sits behind two joysticks, watches his moves 
on a video screen, but has far more at stake should he inadvertently 
strike a hidden explosive.

This is no Metal Gear video game he's playing.

Dean is a field technician for the Air Force Research Laboratory — 
Airbase Technology Division, a team from Tyndall Air Force Base helping 
to clear deserted firing ranges at Camp Edwards of unexploded ordnance, 
or UXOs.

Dean and his co-workers are using remote-controlled Bobcats and 
excavators to search firing ranges. The munitions are likely buried 
below the surface from decades of training dating back to World War II.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/NEWS/806260320

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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