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  2. Sandbag - Wikipedia

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    A sandbag or dirtbag is a bag or sack made of hessian (burlap), polypropylene or other sturdy materials that is filled with sand or soil and used for such purposes as flood control, military fortification in trenches and bunkers, shielding glass windows in war zones, ballast, counterweight, and in other applications requiring mobile ...

  3. Hesco bastion - Wikipedia

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    The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to fill the barrier. [10] The HESCO barriers are varied in sizes and models. Most of the barriers can also be stacked, and they are shipped collapsed in compact sets.

  4. Sangar (fortification) - Wikipedia

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    Sangar from the Western Sahara conflict probably dating from the 1980s Illustration from the Manual of Military Engineering (1905). A sangar (or sanger) (Persian: سنگر) is a temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally constructed of stones, [1] and now built of sandbags, gabions or similar materials.

  5. Defensive fighting position - Wikipedia

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    In British and Canadian military argot it equates to a range of terms including slit trench, or fire trench (a trench deep enough for a soldier to stand in), a sangar (sandbagged fire position above ground) or shell scrape (a shallow depression that affords protection in the prone position), or simply—but less accurately—as a "trench".

  6. Moral Injury - The Huffington Post

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    Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.

  7. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...

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