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Roadside Bomb Kills 4 US Troops in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL (Jan. 4) -- A roadside bombing killed four U.S. service members, the first American combat deaths of the year in Afghanistan, while a British soldier died during a foot patrol elsewhere in the volatile south of the country, officials said Monday. A statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force said the explosion that killed the U.S. service members took place Sunday in the south, but did not give further details on the location or the victims' branch of service. The deaths are the first U.S. fatalities from hostile action in Afghanistan this year. One U.S. service ...
Roadside Bomb Hunting: Learned Skill or Intuition?
By David Wood - Politics DailyIt was dusk and just over 100 degrees as the truck convoy designated Dagger Three Seven snaked past concrete barriers and coils of razor wire and crept onto a road pocked with scars where previous convoys had been hit with IEDs. Our gun truck was escorting two dozen tractor trailers carrying food, ammo, and spare parts from an air base to an outlying post, and to make sure we got there OK, Army Specialist Francisco B. Fimbres was up in the turret, sweeping the landscape with eagle eyes. Left ... front ... right ... front ... left. ...
From Hollywood Fantasy to the Medical Fast Track
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 21) -- The Department of Defense has announced plans to fast-track face transplant surgery, with a $3.4 million grant for surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. An estimated 200 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are candidates for the procedure; better body armor and trauma care mean more troops survive the frequent roadside-bomb attacks that are a grim fixture of modern war – but return permanently disfigured. The grant means that face transplants could move from obscure science to clinical medical practice within two years. Brigham surgeons hope to operate on six ...
Roadside Bombs: The High Cost in Blood and Dollars
By David Wood - Politics DailyWhile Washington struggles to define just the right strategy for Afghanistan, insurgents there are quietly killing young Americans with terrible efficiency, and all of America's military might cannot stop them. Even as a senior U.S. officer was suggesting to me Tuesday that the Pentagon is on the verge of important technological break-throughs in its long war against roadside bombs, eight American troops were killed and several others were wounded by IED blasts in southern Afghanistan. ...
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