Department of Homeland Security orders over a half ton of high explosivesJames Smith, Contributor Name of Requisitioning Office: National Canine Program (NCP)/ Canine Explosives Section (CES) SECTION II: Purpose Scope of the Product, Service, or Outcome: The CES requires the 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX to provide Canine Explosive Training Aids (CETAs) to NCP participants. The supplier must be able to meet the exact requirements by August 31st, 2012. Substitutions for this product are not acceptable SECTION III: Background The CES is required to provide NCP participants with CETAs. The CES has selected to use High Density Ammonium Nitrate and A-5 Flake RDX as it will provide NCP participants with a more realistic training aid and compliment the current aids provided. This all comes on the heels of a solicitation for sheet style high powered plastic explosives that we reported on earlier in the week. The problem is very clear. As stated in the ATF Law Enforcement Guide to Explosives Incident Reporting document: In order to detonate ammonium nitrate, the use of a booster is required. Commercially, Pentolite and RDX are used as a booster, while the military will often use TNT as the booster. To put the amount of explosives into perspective, Timothy McVeigh used 5,000 pounds of AN and motor racing fuel. RDX has a much greater explosive capacity than racing fuel, and McVeigh was a party to mass murder and destruction that would be on par with these materials being detonated. For the sake of argument, if a dog needed only 1 ounce of each material in order to be trained and tested, there is enough material for 11,200 dogs at the same time. This does not meet the smell test. No pun intended. We will continue to watch the developments and report back to you. This article first appeared at Prepper Podcast Radio Network. Read other articles by James Smith HERE. You can support this information by voting on Reddit HERE James is a father of four and grandfather to four. He and his wife of almost 30 years have been prepping since 2003. They live in a small town, with neighbors as close as 10 feet away and have raised chickens for 2 years covertly on less than 1/5 of an acre. He is a former corrections officer, insurance fraud investigator, and he served in the Navy for 6 years. He currently works for a corporation dealing with the disabled population and their benefits. He is the host of The Covert Prepper show and the Prepper Podcast Radio Network News, both heard on Blogtalk Radio. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 