She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. The strangeness of the body a body that consumes or creates or gives up a bolus, for instance and the people who study it (the body, not the bolus) are really her subject. Army Natick Labs explain why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. Back in the US, fashion designers at U.S. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, she discovers that diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. Print Word PDF This section contains 670 words (approx. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-panic, exhaustion, heat, flies, noise-and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War Summary & Study Guide Mary Roach This Study Guide consists of approximately 39 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Grunt.
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