New life-saving tool unveiled at Combined Joint Task Force-82 HQ
Written by Army Sgt. Jim Wilt CJTF-82 Public Affairs Office
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Doctors and medics here received a new tool today to aid in the treatment of wounded servicemembers on the battlefield. The tool, which is a little too big to [...]
The vehicles, known as MRAPS, are designed to protect occupants against armor-piercing roadside bombs, knows as “explosively formed penetrators.” The shipment marks the largest shipment at one time to date of these life-saving vehicles to America’s warfighers in Iraq and the expansion of MRAP transportation to include both airlift and sealift, a major milestone for [...]
