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6 unusual facts about Improvised Explosive Device


Doug Vogt

While on assignment in Iraq for ABC News with anchor Bob Woodruff, Vogt and Woodruff were both severely injured by a roadside bomb.

Foreverlamp

His passion for design brought him to Milan where he studied Industrial Design at IED.

Giles Duley

In 2011 he was severely injured after stepping on an IED whilst in Afghanistan and as a result became a triple amputee.

Hawija

5 individuals were killed when a surface to air missile was modified into an IED, destroying the Humvee and killing everyone inside.

John Kriesel

He lost both of his legs in military combat in 2006 in an encounter with an IED, or roadside bomb.

Matt Saracen

The season after graduating Matt's father dies after stepping on an IED.


Advanced Combat Helmet

Beginning in 2008, the Army's Program Executive Office Soldier outfitted soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division and 4th Infantry Division bound for Iraq with helmet-mounted sensors designed to gather data on head injuries caused during Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonations.

Barrel bomb

A barrel bomb is a type of improvised explosive device used by the Syrian Air Force during the Syrian civil war.

Battle of Abu Ghraib

Main Supply Routes (MSR) Sword and Tampa were blocked to both the east and west of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Abu Ghraib by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and small arms ambushes.

Battle of Mir Ali

According to the Pakistani Armed Forces, the clashes broke out on 7 October after militants set off improvised explosive devices and conducted ambushes on a Pakistani convoy, near the town of Mir Ali.

Bologna Centrale railway station

On 2 August 1980 at 10.25 am, an improvised explosive device (IED) made with 20 kilograms of a TNT mixture was detonated inside Bologna's main railway station.

Combat engineer

The IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers were key factor in keeping IDF casualties low during the Second Intifada, as they were impervious to Palestinian weapons and detonated safely thousands of IEDs and booby traps, some were big enough to destroy a main battle tank.

If I Should Fall

He died on March 8, 2009 after his vehicle hit an Improvised explosive device (IED) in Shah Wali Kot district, Kandahar province.

James P. Hunter

Hunter was killed on 18 June 2010 while reporting on his unit's foot patrol movements in the Zhari District of Kandahar, where his unit was stuck by an Improvised Explosive Device.

Kodee Kennings

He reportedly returned to duty just weeks later, and was later injured by an roadside bomb which struck a Humvee in which he was traveling.

Nigel Essenhigh

In retirement Essenhigh became an advisor to Northrop Grumman and from 2010 to 2011 he was chief executive of its Information Systems Europe business, involved in the supply of command, control, and intelligence and counter-IED products to customers throughout Europe.

Portuguese Rapid Reaction Brigade

The KIA Comando was 1st Sergeant Roma Pereira, mortally hit when an IED detonated his Humvee.

Rupert Thorneloe

Thorneloe was killed by the Taliban in Operation Panther's Claw during a resupply mission when an improvised explosive device exploded under his BvS 10 Viking armoured vehicle.

Sangin

After regrouping the convoy an ANA vehicle struck an IED killing six Afghans outside of Hyderabad, Gerishk District, Helmand province, Afghanistan.

Tim Vakoc

He was critically injured on May 29, 2004, when his Humvee was struck by an IED (improvised explosive device) as he was returning from celebrating Mass for soldiers.


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Santos Cardona

Cardona and his Working Dog, a German Shepherd named "Zomie", were Killed In Action (KIA) February 28, 2009 in Uruzgan Province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, when the vehicle he was riding in struck a buried Improvised Explosive Device.