"It was a cold winter morning out in Afghan and I was just walking down a sandy path with overgrown trees on it when I put my right foot onto a pressure pad IED, it detonated and the next thing I knew I was on my back, " he said.
He said the paratrooper was part of a patrol sent to recover kit after a soldier lost his legs when he triggered an IED (improvised explosive device), while the patrol looked for the kit another IED went off, seriously injuring a second soldier.
Instead of vast maneuver grounds and lots of instructors and equipment, soldiers can train with small but high-tech gear such as Dismounted Soldier Training System, or they can practice techniques, such as squad tactics or IED recognition, using a training game on a laptop or even smartphones.
As a Marine, he was injured by an IED in Iraq in 2004 and ultimately had one of his legs amputated.
And he sat there--the night before we got hit by the IED, we were actually working on a song he was going to teach me.
In previous tours in 2009, the battalion lost Lance Corporal Chris Harkett when he was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) as he provided covering fire on a Taliban stronghold near Musa Qala.
The following year he spoke about how he survived after the vehicle he was in was hit by an improvised explosive device or IED, with the force of the blast snapping a couple of the machine guns in half.
Harris Tatakis, a former corporal in the Royal Marines, received multiple injuries in an IED blast.
Through a coalition of public, private and military efforts, we can reduce IED networks and prevent IED networks from forming.
Sergeant Gabriel Herrera, who, in his first deployment, became a recipient of the Purple Heart, due to injuries sustained from an IED blast to his vehicle.
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