Imagine working in a Tyvex suit, chemical boots, full mask & gloves with your air supplied by a hose. Anywhere a glove or boot or your mask touches the Tyvex is duct taped together. On the outside of the plastic Tyvex suit you wear a vest with what looks like a small Scuba tank attached on your back weighing about fifteen pounds. This is your "escape" bottle and it will provide you with ten minutes of breathable air in the event of an emergency.
You are standing next to a conveyor belt carrying mostly rocks & dirt and your job is to look for intact lab glass containers that may or may not contain one of several kinds of chemical agents specifically brewed up for the battlefield. You are required to secure the offending aforementioned container for later analysis. You are also required to secure any suspected explosive ordnance or ordnance residue. Other rubbish may be secured at your discretion.
Your plastic suit is head to toe & you are working inside a plastic tent as well which means you are about twenty degrees hotter than the outside ambient temperature. Factor in humidity at seventy percent and it is easy to understand why we also wear an ice vest under the Tyvex suit.
It was, after all, a range to test & fire chemical ordnance. We were new to the concept of WMD back then and we made mistakes, but nothing that couldn't be quickly burned or buried. All chemicals were mixed on site then poured inside various ordnance configuarations that were fired downrange to determine the most effective fuzing & round configuration for each particular agent.
Cleaning up toxic waste.
Environmental Remediation.
Call it what you will, I call it work.
As much as I would like to see us featured on Dirty Jobs, it is a politically sensitive project in a politically sensitive town. If you think you are up to the challenge then drop me a line at anabomination@mad.scientist.com for more info.
Your show is funny and interesting. Keep doing it. Q