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Description
Returning to Bosnia for the fourth time, Major Mac Culloch describes more of the varied tasks he encountered.
Wayne Mac Culloch
Le Major Wayne Mac Culloch est né en 1953 au Cap Breton et il a grandi au Québec. À 18 ans, il a fréquenté le Collège royal militaire pour ensuite s’enrôler en 1968, à titre d’ingénieur militaire. M. Mac Culloch a été déployé trois fois en Bosnie et une fois en Haïti. Il a pris sa retraite après 41 ans de service. Il a ensuite travaillé avec le Ministère de la Défense nationale. Depuis 2004, M. Mac Culloch est un bénévole dévoué pour présenter le “Module de la paix” avec le programme Rencontres du Canada, partageant avec les jeunes l’importance du service et du sacrifice.
Transcription
In 2003 I went back for a fourth brief tour to investigate a radiological incident and the problem was that when we were destroying the arms that had been turned over to us, some of the weapons had radioactive paint in the sights and if you cut through that paint with an oxy-acetylene torch you release the radioactive agents which you can then inhale and we were concerned that this was going to cause long term effects. Happily it turned out that of all the people who were involved in the destruction of weapons only two came up to half of what the allowable dose is for a general member of the public so it was a very successful investigation and it used not only my engineering expertise but also my operational expertise in terms of being able to understand how different things went together. Actually went so far as to recreate experimental conditions from which we took data to prove that, in fact, no one was at risk.