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 of bad guys and not a lot of us.” IEDs were the Taliban’s weapon of choice. Fighters used them to blow up soldiers on foot patrol. They used them to blow up vehicles. They planted them in roads, in fields, along paths and in stone walls. 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 of bad guys and not a lot of us.” IEDs were the Taliban’s weapon of choice. Fighters used them to blow up soldiers on foot patrol. They used them to blow up vehicles. They planted them in roads, in fields, along paths and in stone walls. 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 of bad guys and not a lot of us.” IEDs were the Taliban’s weapon of choice. Fighters used them to blow up soldiers on foot patrol. They used them to blow up vehicles. They planted them in roads, in fields, along paths and in stone walls.