In Afghanistan, the number of IED incidents last year rose to more than 1,000, a 33 percent increase from 2007, and claimed 161 lives. “IEDs are the biggest threat we face,” says Maj.

The UK Foreign Office has announced that the country will allocate £7 million for clearing mines and explosives left behind ...

Marine Corps veteran Sean Smith didn’t leave his house for four years. He had lost purpose and motivation. His journey to that point had been a long one. It all started on his last tour in ...

He awed us—most of us were on our first deployment to Afghanistan and Matt had served in combat multiple times and had fought ...

Prince Harry's first Winter Invictus Games is facing backlash over the biathlon event, which is swapping rifles for laser ...

Chairwoman Dr. Dawn Buckingham introduced the next installment of the series highlighting the VLB's Voices of Veterans oral history program. This week, they highlight the service of SPC Mason Leist ...

U.S. Air Force explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron ...

The National Wood Flooring Association and the Gary Sinise Foundation's R.I.S.E. program dedicated the home for U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Dennet Oregon. Flooring for the project was donated from NWFA ...

Chief Warrant Officer 2 William Faffler recently received two Purple Hearts for traumatic brain injuries he sustained in ...

Take account of clustering: deaths per fatal improvised explosive device (IED) incident, and in making short-term projections for Afghanistan. Methods: Cause and date of coalition deaths in Iraq ...

Dodged IEDs.” He said Trump told him that ... Jim Mattis, served in combat in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and was awarded a ...

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...