True.. Wade has been involved in all of it. Dr. Wade Poteet, co-founder of System Specialists, Inc. (SSI) and a consultant to ChemTech/Loch, acknowledged some apprehensions about the risk of taking ELF from the lab environment to a live minefield. (Note: Now there's a long-standing familiar and still active name, Dr. Wade Poteet. One of the unbreakable threads that seems to run through this whole story, at least from first meeting the "renowned Dr. Henry Blair" to the present.) "I was pleasantly surprised to see that the signal strength of ELF actually increased and was stronger in the natural environment," he said. "The mines stood out in a clearer contrast in the field than when ELF was picking up extraneous 'noise' from the laboratory setting - linoleum, walls, and the like." (Note: Just love his understated "pleasantly surprised." Such dignity.)