IEDs

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    Inside The Blast: Part 1: Anatomy Of An Explosion

    November 21, 2011 by Sharon Adams
    In 2008, Master Corporal Mike Trauner, deployed with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR), was on foot patrol in the Zhari District west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, when a remotely controlled IED (improvised explosive device) was detonated under his feet. The blast blew off...
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    Left Of The Boom

    January 19, 2009 by Adam Day
    Left Of The Boom. ILLUSTRATION: ©Greg Stevenson/www.i2iart.com The feeling has been described by survivors as falling. Also as soaring. There’s a flash and a shrieking darkness and then the weightless moments of maximum kinetic terror when the detonation blasts you beyond gravity. After the boom there...