Heat weapon demo just another day at the office

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Heat weapon demo just another day at the office
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, October 28, 2007


MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — I’m standing downrange from a heat ray waiting to get zapped.

Why?

My boss wants to kill me.

Actually, he wants to know what this thing feels like. Secondhand, anyway.

Known as the “Active Denial System,” the heat ray is a nonlethal system meant to be an alternative to rubber bullets and other nonlethal systems with limited ranges, said Marine Col. Kirk Hymes.

Hymes is director of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at Quantico, Va., where my fellow reporters and I are freezing our butts off on a drizzly Thursday morning to get a demonstration of the ray gun.


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