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By Sgt. Thomas L. Day
40th Public Affairs Detachment
KUWAIT - U.S. Soldiers and Marines, British officers and officials from Department of Defense contracted companies came together at Camp Arifjan this week to discuss improvised explosive device counter-measures. They left after the three-day conference with one synchronized gameplan on how to counter the most deadly threat in Iraq and Afghanistan: IEDs.
Soldiers and Marines from Iraq and Afghanistan came to Kuwait for the conference.
"The broad mission is to synchronize the counter IED fight," said Maj. Lee Hicks, Third Army/U.S. Army Central's top counter-IED officer. "We don't want units coming over here to see things for the first time."
The conference also served to share counter-IED technology and the most up-to-date information from Iraq and Afghanistan. Representatives from Close Combat Systems and Assured Mobility Systems, two contracted engineering companies, attended the conference, looking for new ideas.
Counter-IED training was the most common topic during the conference, with the first day entirely devoted to that subject.
"Every Soldier coming into Afghanistan, every unit coming into Afghanistan needs to be trained up on the basics of shoot, move and communicate in an IED environment," said Lt. Col. Tom Powell, a 10th Mountain Division operations officer, who has served in Bagram, Afghanistan, since August 2006.
| Date Taken: | 01.17.2007 |
| Date Posted: | 01.17.2007 13:58 |
| Story ID: | 8835 |
| Location: | KW |
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