KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Army Staff Sgt. Tom Maahs, from Maple Shade, , who is with the Task Force Paladin explosive ordinance disposal unit, inspects the site of an IED through his rifle scope on a street near the wood market in Gardez Feb. 18. The IED was discovered by local Afghan Uniformed Police and later destroyed by an Afghan National Army explosive ordinance disposal unit. This detonation was historic because it was the first time an Afghan EOD unit was called on to destroy an IED without assistance from coalition forces. A Scout unit and an EOD unit from Forward Operating Base Gardez supervised the operation, but played no hand in it.
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