Understanding Blast

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    Inside The Blast: Part 3: On The Frontiers Of Brain Science

    April 11, 2012 by Sharon Adams
    Lieutenant-Colonel Dan Drew has seen any number of soldiers blown up by IEDs (improvised explosive devices). He was one of roughly 200 Canadians embedded with an Afghan brigade of 3,000 in Kandahar province for seven months in 2008, a time when “there were a lot...
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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...