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The Other Rosenburgs
An investigation into the discrimination against and dismissal of Jews who worked for the US Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, NJ in the wake of Julius Rosenburg's arrest.
Tags: Discrimination; US Army
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A Failure to Warn
The investigation shows why flood predictions for Nashville have been very inaccurate. The Army Corps of Engineers and the National Weather Service had not alerted the government or the public that water was being released into the Cumberland River. The reporter finds that the two agencies barely communicated during the floods, leading to the spread of incorrect information.
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers; floods; National Weather Service; dam; flood prediction
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Impossible Dream: Rebuilding Afghanistan amid corruption, nepotism, and mismanagement
The investigation examines the Obama administration's efforts to create a modern, secure nation in Afghanistan.
Tags: Afghanistan; War on Terror; al Qaeda; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; reconstruction
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Pumps Under Pressure: A story of risk and reliability after Katrina
After Hurricane Katrina and the hurricane protection had failed, many people questioned how well the Army Corps had done their job. One of them questioning is a 10-year Army Corps veteran, Maria Garzino. "Her concerns have spurred internal inquires, General Accounting Office reports, and congressional hearings."
Tags: Engineering; New Orleans; Army Corps; Hydraulic; Hurricane
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American's Neglected Levees
Scripps reviewed the federal and state level system of levee oversight and found that no one at any level of government knows where all levees are, what they protect or what shape they are in. Thousands of communities are being forced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get levees certified under a national upgrade of flood hazard maps, but even FEMA admits the standards are outdated and don't accurately reflect the risks to people behind them.
Tags: FEMA; levee; flood; Army Corps of Engineers; infrastructure; National Levee Safety Committee; insurance
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Safety Second?
This investigation revealed that the US Marine Corps awarded a $300 million vehicle contract to a company that produced sub-standard vehicles which did not meet the Marines' own safety standards. This vehicle with no doors and no roof (called The Growler) was chosen over a superior vehicle designed by Detroit engineers.
Tags: military contract; federal government; Middle East conflict; army; transportation; combat
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Command Mistake
As a result of this WISH-TV (Indianapolis, IN) report, the United States Marine Corps is now issuing helmets with ballistic padding to all marines. Previously, only the Army was issuing padded helmets; and some marines were buying their own padding. The story showed that college football players' helmets were more protective than the marine helmet."The cost to care for a head-injured soldier with permanent brain damage is $2.5 to $3 million. The cost of the helmet pads is as little as $30." Story contains on-ground elements filmed in Germany and Iraq.
Tags: Traumatic brain injury research; TBI; concussion; ballistic pad testing; football helmet testing; Kevlar helmet; roadside bomb blasts; Commanding General George Casey; Baghdad; Fallujah; Landstuhl Medical Center, Germany; Riddell; Brigadier General John Kelley; Congressman Steve Buyer; Indiana National Guard; Roudebush VA Medical Center; craniectomy; aphasia; Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Joint Theater Trauma Registry; Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center; DVBIC; Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital; Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone; Susan Okie, MD; New England Journal of Medicine; American Football Coaches Association; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program
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Hurricane Katrina: How New Orleans' Levees Failed
The reporters investigated how the New Orleans levee system, built to protect the city from flooding, failed when Hurricane Katrina hit. The authors found that a large part of the problem with the levees boiled down to human error - mistakes that cost hundreds of lives.
Tags: New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina; levees; Army Corps of Engineers; levee failure; flooding; hurricanes
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Flawed Body Armor
U.S. Marine Corps purchased about 19,000 supposedly bullet-resistant protective body armor vests from production lots that were failed by government testers for production flaws that made them less resistant to bullets. The Corps sent more than 5,000 of those vests to troops in Iraq and recalled them just days before this story ran.
Tags: army; military; defense; war; federal government; government expenditure; safety; war; body armor vests; military procurement
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Investigating Broken Levees
Levee experts commissioned to study the flooding of New Orleans testify that the Army Corps of Engineers contractors' work on the New Orleans levees was substandard. The experts quoted contacted the NewsHour and the New York Times exclusively to publicize the information
Tags: New Orleans; levee; Hurricane Katrina; Army Corps of Engineers; flooding