Military Contractor Resigns in Impassioned Protest: “I Hereby Throw Down My Rifle”BRANDON TOY, bmtoy79 at gmail.com Toy has just resigned from his position as an engineering project manager at the military contractor General Dynamics. Toy told Common Dreams on Wednesday: “I felt a lot of cognitive dissonance for the last two or three years. I knew what the truth was and what the consequences of our actions were.