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  • Pentagon needs prodding to send in IED-busters

    02/15/2006 8:41:34 AM PST · by rang1995 · 26 replies · 729+ views
    journal times ^ | 2/15/06
    Pentagon needs prodding to send in IED-busters Deploy the golf carts, Mr. President. Over the weekend we editorially lamented some of the misspending in the proposed new Defense Department budget and suggested some of the billions for high tech planes and submarines would be better spent on needed armor for our troops in Iraq and for better equipment for detecting improvised explosive devices. Coincidentally, we learn from the Los Angeles Times reports, that such an IED-buster does exist - it's called a JIN or Joint IED Neutralizer - and it has destroyed 90 percent of roadside explosives in extensive Army...