Foam Target
name: label: user
content: Federal Air Marshal Service
notes: label: Description
content: These foam dummies, nicknamed “Pistol Bob”, are used to simulate where a real passenger may be in aircraft seats. They are also used in marksmanship training with different dummies representing a threat and others bystanders. Hand-to-hand tactics are practiced on different dummies made of hard plastic or rubber. This training dummy was used for training by Federal Air Marshals from the Washington D.C. Field Office beginning in 2002.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Air Travel
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Transportation
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content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3058.02
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3058.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: target
label: Object Name
content: dummy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: foam (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 23 1/2 in x 12 in; 101.6 cm x 59.69 cm x 30.48 cm