His role was to provide search and clearance support, uncovering hidden weapons, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and bomb-making equipment.
To be fair, the Office of Bombing Prevention isn't the only federal entity that deals with IEDs.
He was deployed to Iraq, where he was in charge of securing convoys, checking roads for IEDs.
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In January, the Government Accounting Office launched a review of JIEDDO and its efforts to counter IEDs.
While the United Nations annually issues a resolution condemning landmines, it has never issued a resolution condemning IEDs.
Finally, the broader global community must come together and take meaningful action against IEDs and those who use them.
They have V-shaped hulls that deflect blasts from improvised explosive devices -- IEDs -- outward and away from passengers.
The centre at St George's Barracks in Bicester will train service personnel in how to deal with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
For one thing, they say they're getting better at detecting the bombs, which the Pentagon calls IEDs, for improvised explosive devices.
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The constant threat of IEDs has meant a new generation of service members with multiple traumatic injuries, including Traumatic Brain Injury.
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The solution to this dilemma, proposed by the Global Campaign against IEDs, will be comprehensive, involving public, private and military partners.
James Baker of BAE, who is working on the project, says defeating IEDs is now the operational priority for Britain's defence ministry.
McGregor says the IEDs are often placed in the same spot daily.
The Afghans find 14 improvised explosives devices (IEDs) planted by the Taliban.
On his hands and knees, he had painstakingly searched a ditch, often with little more than his fingertips, for improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
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Our correspondent says he has heard a few explosions in the distance, but they are believed to have been controlled detonations of IEDs.
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Like Pte Smith, he has come under small arms fire but said it was the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that were the main threat.
In December 2010, while supporting the Irish Guards and Danish troops forming part of the Coalition forces, Theo identified two bags of fertiliser and a large quantity of parts intended to make IEDs.
In May 2012, a bipartisan group of 92 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling for a unified U.S. strategy and international action against IEDs.
It would be two weeks before that Stryker would roll outside the wire again, this in an environment where trucks totaled by IEDs are welded back together and sent again into harm's way in mere hours.
"The jury found there was a conspiracy to murder involving at least three men but failed to reach a verdict on whether the ambit of the conspiracy to murder included the allegation that they intended to detonate IEDs (improvised explosive devices) on trans-Atlantic airliners in relation to seven of the men, " the Crown Prosecution said in a statement.
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