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Ballistics - who's a world-renowned expert on ballistics and combat injuries?
Craig Mallak, J.D., M.D. Chief Medical Examiner for Broward County, covering the Parkland schoold district.
What a fortunate coincidence, someone with both the knowledge and the tools (their new scanners) to do a thorough forensic analysis.
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Within an hour after the bodies arrive in their flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base, they go through a process that has never been used on the dead from any other war.
“We’ve created a huge database that’s never existed before,” said Capt. Craig T. Mallak, 48, a Navy pathologist and lawyer who is chief of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, a division of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
It was Captain Mallak who decided that autopsies should be performed on all troops killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. Federal law gives him that authority.
“Every day, families come back for more information,” Captain Mallak said. “The No. 1 question they want to know is, ‘Did my loved one suffer?’ If we can say, ‘No, it was instantaneous, he or she never knew what happened,’ they do get a great sense of relief out of that. But we don’t lie.”
“He was one of the most compassionate people throughout this whole process that I dealt with from the Department of Defense,” Mrs. Sweet said of Captain Mallak.
http:/ /www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26autopsy.html