Fort Gordon leads Army in training aid design | The Augusta Chronicle

Brian Clayson has more than a dozen explosives outside his Fort Gordon office.

The collection includes a pressure-cooker bomb similar to the one used during the Boston Marathon attack; a suicide vest commonly found in the Middle East; and a hollowed-out, dynamite-filled boulder soldiers routinely encounter while deployed to Iraq.

While the devices may look real, none of the weapons are made to kill.

All are built to save soldiers’ lives.

“Nothing is active,” Clayson said. “Everything here just makes noise.”

A former Gulf War combat engineer, Clayson heads a staff of 10 civilian employees at Fort Gordon who design and manufacture more than 280 war-type training aids for the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps.

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