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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 405
design, development, testing, and management of weapons at all levels” with the United States
Air Force. He has been involved with the development of almost all non-nuclear weapons in use
by the Air Force. “This included extensive hands-on work at the Ballistic Research Laboratories
and field testing of all types of explosives on a broad spectrum of structures and targets. He
served as commander of the Air Force Armament Technology Laboratory and was the first
chairman of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) joint service Air Munitions
Requirements and Development Committee, responsible for munitions development for the
Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.” Jasper says that “General Partin possesses virtually
unparalleled qualifications to authoritatively evaluate the public-source information available on
the bombing.”
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General Partin produced another report to support that the damage sustained by the
federal building was not the result of a truck bomb. General Partin was able to obtain test data
and photographs supplied from the Armament Directorate of Wright Laboratory at Eglin Air
Force Base in Florida on which to base his report. The data obtained was from blast studies
conducted on a concrete reinforced building of similar design to the federal building in
Oklahoma. While the building was of similar design it contained far less steel reinforcement and
other design differences that made it's structural integrity vastly inferior to that of the federal
building. In spite of this, the Englin blast test was unable to inflict any serious structural damage
to the test structure from an open air blast which was similar to the truck bomb in Oklahoma.
Partin's report concluded:
Due to these conditions, it is impossible to ascribe the damage that
occurred on April 19, 1995 to a single truck bomb containing 4,800 lbs. of ANFO.
In fact, the maximum predicted damage to the floor panels of the Murrah Federal
Building is equal to approximately 1% of the total floor area of the building.
Furthermore, due to the lack of symmetrical damage pattern at the Murrah
Building, it would be inconsistent with the results of the ETS test [number] one to
state that all of the damage to the Murrah Building is the result of the truck bomb.
The damage to the Murrah Federal Building is consistent with damage
resulting from mechanically coupled devices placed locally within the structure....
It must be concluded that the damage at the Murrah Federal Building is
not the result of the truck bomb itself, but rather due to other factors such as
locally placed charges within the building itself.... The procedures used to cause
the damage to the Murrah Building are therefore more involved and complex than
simply parking a truck and leaving....
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The New American had General Partin's Englin Blast Study Report reviewed by three
professionals: Robert Frias (president of Frias Engineering of Arlington, Texas), Alvin Norberg,
(a licensed professional engineer in Auburn, California with over 50 years of engineering
experience on over 5,000 construction projects), and Kenneth Gow of Whittier (an aerospace
engineer with over one-half century of engineering experience). These men all concurred with
General Partin's conclusions.
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