They can’t use GFIs because they obviously haven’t grounded the system. GFIs won’t set without a valid ground, and it’s obvious there aren’t any. You wouldn’t use anything other than GFI outlets and UV cable on a temporary hook up like Iraq, it’s like the lines you run to a generator after a hurricane. Our generator has rubber tires, so I have a grounding stake and some #6 to deal with that issue as I don’t intend to get electrocuted after surviving the hurricane.
The contractors are corrupt and people are dying. Nothing is being done about it.
The military has its own civil engineering people, and they should be the ones doing this, but the Hedgemony has outsourced everything. You don’t hear about the problem at Air Force installations in Iraq, because the Air Force uses its “city in a box” system installed by an Air Force RED HORSE unit.
]]>Waxman wants to know why KBR is electrocuting US soldiers
Contractors Still Electrocuting Troops
The Army has provided little detailed information about the electrocutions, other than to say late Friday that 10 soldiers had been electrocuted in Iraq. A House committee has also reported that two marines died similarly.
One former KBR electrician was quite frank about what’s going on:
And Mr. Bliss, who saw a soldier standing next to him in Qalat, Afghanistan, receive a severe shock from an electrical box that was not supposed to be charged, said his KBR bosses mocked him for raising safety issues. They were “not giving the Army what it needed,” he said, “and not giving the soldiers what they deserved.”
It it wasn’t BushWorld, nobody would believe it. *sigh*
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