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Kodiak Marine chaplain stays on front lines

...injuries, he has helped others heal from loss. He remembered an incident where a Marine was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion. All of the man's friends struggled with his death, and Williams was able to go to remote bases...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-28/kodiak-marine-chaplain-stays-front-line
State
Hamas cries victory; truce with Israel holds

...not based on the mood of the public, which can turn the first time an armored personnel carrier rolls over or an explosive device is detonated against forces on the ground," he told Israel Army Radio."The world's mood also can turn...

http://juneauempire.com/ibrahim-barzak/2012-11-23/hamas-cries-victory-truce-isra
Falcons Saturday football game will honor military

...mother at the game, I am just completely humbled."McRae was wounded on January 16, 2012, when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded under him while he was investigating a threat on a Marine base in the Helmand Province in southern...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2012-08-30/falcons-saturday-football-game-will-ho
Sports
JDHS alum awarded Silver Star Haralovich enlisted with Marines after 2003 graduation

...three tours of duty in the Iraq War, coming away from one with a Purple Heart after being wounded by an improvised explosive device.While taking courses in international studies at Indiana University, Staff Sgt. Haralovich has remained a member...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-25/jdhs-alum-awarded-silver-star-haralovic
Local
Wounded Juneau Marine learning to walk again

...investigating an explosive threat on a Marine base in the Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. An improvised explosive device exploded under him.He sustained eye injuries, but Ryan says his vision in his left eye is slowly improving. A prosthetic...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-05-30/wounded-juneau-marine-learning-walk-aga
Local
Peace corps profiles: PCV Cuadra fulfills sense of wanderlust

...that we here don't know (maybe some new event or threat since that USAID MARD Project jeep got blown up by an explosive device planted in the roadway, and then the MARD staffers in the vehicle were shot, in the district just north of here...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-08-19
Neighbors
Wounded warrior returns to Juneau

...missing pieces.McRae said he was on foot on a Marine patrol base, Patrol Base Chakaw, working on an improvised explosive device (IED) outside an abandoned compound with 10 to 15 feet high walls, probably once used for farming. All of a sudden...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-09-04/wounded-warrior-returns-juneau
Local
Paralympics an inspiration to war-wounded athletes

...Snyder's sight couldn't touch the Navy lieutenant's fighting spirit.A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that he was trying to detect while on duty in Kandahar, the American is swimming at the London Paralympics...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2012-09-06/paralympics-inspiration-war-wounded-at
Sports
Legacy of deaths due to landmines

...During the latest conflict, in addition to planting landmines, the Taliban have made extensive use of improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs, adding to the existing threat. Dayem Kakar, the head of Afghanistan's Natural Disaster...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-08-04/legacy-deaths-due-landmines
Opinion
Public safety officials say communication is biggest change since the attacks

...to calls, sharing information and going to mutual training.Etheridge recently attended a program on underwater explosive devices and the hazards and risks Juneau could face. CCFR is sending five members to Valdez in October to go through a Marine...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-09-11/public-safety-officials-say-communicati
Local

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