When IEDs Come Home: What Boston Looked Like to Iraq Veterans
“Wow, that’s some OIF-2 shit right there,” referring to the military’s term for the second year of combat operations in Iraq. “Ball-bearing IEDs would do a number on the old-school Humvees,” Sellars said. “Then we started up-armoring everything… so that generation of IED wasn’t any good anymore.” In Iraq, the American armor and insurgents’ weapons were constantly evolving. That hasn’t happened in America, of course.
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