Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161023:09:09:00
30% of the casualties, men working to diffuse and remove the explosives. we liberate a village and they're everywhere he says. people come back to their homes and open up and it blows up. the mining teams have rudimentary equipment, a metal detector if they're lucky. the operator of this one lost fingers to a booby trap. usually the tools are -- their faces are inches from the explosives. no body armor. we need training but it's not enough he tells us. we need more equipment, new equipment to find the ieds and destroy them. >> he was killed by -- >> the captain has lost many friends who do the...