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Counter-IED Is A Combined Arms Fight, General Says

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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.--Improvised Explosive Devices [IED] are devastating on the battlefield and must be countered by an all-out effort, the commander of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) said. "It must be a combined arms fight," Army Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, JIEDDO director, said yesterday at the 2010 Joint Warfighting Conference here, cosponsored by the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association and the U.S. Naval Institute in coordination with U.S. Joint Forces Command. In Oates' opinion,…

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