San Diego company simulates battle, bullets, blood

San Diego company simulates battle, bullets, blood
“If we shoot at you, you’re not going to get hurt — but you’re going to feel like you’re going to die,” said Stu Segall, company president.
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Red Cross volunteers needed
Crisp County has been designated by the American Red Cross as a major evacuation site in case of a hurricane either in the Atlantic or the Gulf. For that reason, Jack Windham who coordinates Red Cross efforts locally, says he needs many more volunteers who know what to do in an emergency situation. A shelter operations training session is planned for Saturday, May 14 at the Crisp County …
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When the Soviets built an electric tractor [Retro]
# retro Lenin may have equated Communism with the union of Soviet power and the electrification of the entire country, but surely he didn’t literally mean hooking everything up to the grid. His overeager disciples thought otherwise. Going through 60-year-old trade journals, nuclear physicist Miklós Tallián unearthed a bizarre attempt to electrify Soviet fields. This is the story of engineer A. V …
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