Practical Military Ordnance Identification

Thomas Gersbeck

CRC Press, Mar 5, 2014 - Law - 358 pages

The threat variables associated with military ordnance are enormous, requiring the application of a structured process to identify unknown munitions. The focus of Practical Military Ordnance Identification is the application of a practical deductive process to identify unknown ordnance items that are commonly recovered outside military control.

The author supplies a seven-step procedure to identify unknown munitions by their category, group, and type. Detailed logic trees help users narrow down the possibilities in order to accurately identify ordnance. The book covers the safety precautions associated with each category and group of ordnance. It describes many ordnance construction characteristics and explains the fundamentals of military ordnance fuzing. Appendices define terms and supply abbreviations and acronyms used to describe military ordnances.

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Contents

• Overview of Energetics Associated with Ordnance: 1
• The Fundamentals of a Practical Process: 19
• Fundamentals of Fuze Functioning: 33
• Ordnance CategoryProjectiles: 67
• Ordnance CategoryGrenades Hand Rifle and Projected: 113
• Ordnance CategoriesAerial Bombs and Dispensers: 155
• Ordnance CategoryRockets: 173
• Ordnance CategoryGuided Missiles: 195
• Ordnance CategorySubmunitions: 211
• Ordnance CategoryLandmines: 229
• Ordnance GroupChemical: 245
• Ordnance CategoryUnderwater Ordnance: 257
• Closing: 275
• Logic Trees: 279
• Common Ordnance Related Abbreviations: 285
• Functional Definitions for OrdnanceRelated Terms: 289
• Explosives Commonly Used with Ordnance: 297
• Metric and Standard Conversions: 301
• Bibliography: 303
• Back Cover: 305

About the author

Tom Gersbeck served in the US Marine Corps EOD field while also pursuing an academic education; he retired in 2001 as a Chief Warrant Officer with a masters of forensic sciences degree. Tom has served with the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) as an Explosives Security Specialist and as the Explosives Branch Chief of the National Explosives Detection Canine Teams Program (NEDCTP) before deploying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and US Department of State programs.

Tom ran the International Unexploded Ordnance Training Program at Texas A&M for two years and spent six years with Fairleigh Dickinson University as an adjunct professor. He is an active member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI), the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and continues to work in his field.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Practical Military Ordnance Identification; Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations
• Author: Thomas Gersbeck
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: CRC Press, 2014
• ISBN: 1439850593, 9781439850596
• Length: 358 pages
• Subjects: Law / Forensic Science; Political Science / Peace; Political Science / Security (National & International)