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Military Will Offer Counter-IED Expertise And Technology To Deal With ISIL Booby Traps

Military Will Offer Counter-IED Expertise And Technology To Deal With ISIL Booby Traps
Sgt. David Jones, an explosive ordnance disposal team leader with EOD Company, 8th Engineer Support Battalion, scans the EOD lane for signs of an improvised explosive device during a training exercise at Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 19, 2016.

The head of military efforts to detect and destroy improvised explosives is winding up a trip to Baghdad where he took measure of how the U.S. can help Iraqi security forces deal with the lethal threat of bombs left behind by retreating Islamic State militants.Army Lt. Gen. Michael Shields, chief of the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency, is scheduled to return to JIDA headquarters next week and deliver a report to his staff of uniformed personnel and civilian engineers on what…

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