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Article: Central Florida contractors take aim at IEDs: The companies are answering the Pentagon's call to neutralize the threat of improvised explosive devices.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2006
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Byline: Richard Burnett
Feb. 26--Broken glass showered Maj. George Harvey's Army truck as the roadside bomb exploded barely 10 feet in front of him, blasting an armored personnel carrier almost 5 feet into the air. "The truck in front of ours took the full brunt," he said. "If it had been us, we wouldn't have survived." The Orlando soldier, who was in a military convoy in Afghanistan at the time, saw what has become the enemy's deadliest weapon in Afghanistan and Iraq: homemade bombs the U.S. military has dubbed "improvised explosive devices," or IEDs. The Pentagon, under pressure from the field and from Congress to neutralize the IED threat, has ...
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