User:Peter Chastain/Miscellaneous Notes

I use this page to keep notes, some of which might eventually be useful in Wikipedia articles. My ideas are not necessarily well formed, and nothing here should be regarded as factual without further research, or even of sufficient importance to merit a place in Wikipedia.

Prince's wand article
Fitting and Finding a Prince's Wand: http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/09-male/pwand/A20401/wndfitti.html

Falklands land mine notes
Falkland Islands is currently tagged for lack of references. http://maic.jmu.edu/JOURNAL/5.2/focus/falklands.htm agrees with our numbers and goes into more detail.

Tourist info on web seems to say that the risk of accidentally detonating a mine is low.

Some general information about UK mine-clearing operations:

jseodoc = Joint Service EOD Operation Centre Joint Doctrine Pamphlet (a Joint Warfare Publication) by UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre (JDCC): "JOINT SERVICE EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL" http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5011A2EB-8ADD-4E1D-87EA-E7C40D61B2DA/0/20071218_jdp2_02_U_DCDCIMAPPS.pdf Page 1C-1: "1C3. Joint Aspects. Command and Control (C2), covering both deployed and Military Aid to the Civil Power (MACP) operations, is discussed in detail in Chapter 2. However, it should be noted here that a single permanent joint control organisation, the Joint Services EOD Operations Centre (JSEODOC) already exists to provide the tasking function for all three Services for UK MACP operations. ..."

2-2: Joint EOD Cell (JEODC) within war theatre

2-4 JEODC in peacetime

Abbreviations pages are at end of this document.