Audio by Rick Haverinen | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.13.2010
The improvised explosive device is a principal concern for U.S. and partner nation forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Defense continues to polish counter-IED training to combat the threat. Today’s visit to counter-IED schoolhouses starts in the classroom, and ends up in a sophisticated simulator employing a Humvee mounted on computer-programmed hydraulic shocks, and......
Audio by Rick Haverinen | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.13.2010
The improvised explosive device is a principal concern for U.S. and partner nation forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Defense continues to polish counter-IED training to combat the threat. Military instruction experts say live training is most effective, so we’ll visit situational training lanes at Fort A. P. Hill; but simulation is also a valuable learning tool.......
Audio by Rick Haverinen | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.13.2010
The improvised explosive device is a principal concern for U.S. and partner nation forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Defense continues to polish counter-IED training to combat the threat. Military instruction experts say live training is most effective, so we’ll visit situational training lanes at Fort A. P. Hill, but simulation is also a valuable learning tool.......
Audio by Rick Haverinen | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.13.2010
The improvised explosive device is a principal concern for U.S. and partner nation forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. Training to counter the IED threat can range from furthering cultural awareness, and improving relationships with members of host nations where coalition service members are operating; to learning what signs to look for, when the IED threat already exists. ......
Audio by Amanda Filler | Defense Health Agency | 07.13.2010
Sophia Tillman-Ortiz, executive director of the U.S. Army Post-Deployment Health Reassessment program, explains what PDHRA is and how families fit into the program....
Audio by Rick Haverinen | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.13.2010
The improvised explosive device is a principal concern for U.S. and partner nation forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. Training to counter the IED threat can range from furthering cultural awareness, and improving relationships with members of host nations where coalition service members are operating; to learning what signs to look for, when the IED threat already exists. ......
Audio by Rick Haverinen | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.13.2010
The improvised explosive device is not new to warfare, but it has become a principal concern for U.S and partner nation forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. Department of Defense has reacted to the IED in multiple ways, including the creation of the Joint IED Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO, which counters the IED threat with the creation and funding of strategies, equipment and......
Audio by 1st Lt. David Spangler | 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) | 07.13.2010
Maj. Linda Bass, from Bessemer, Ala., a Human Resources Officer with the 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, talks to the Captain's America show about her job in-theater, the types of food she eats on the FOB, her experiences going out into the local areas, and sends a greeting to her family....
