also known as roadside bombs, ieds have claimed the lives of 65% of all u.s. casualties in both wars. the improvised bomb is the signature weapon of both the iraq and of the afghanistan war. it s the number one killer of soldiers. it s the number one weapon of insurgents. they re also as scary as hell. whoa! holy sometimes the difference between life and death is just seconds on a trigger. you just don t see it coming. you can have that gut feeling all day long but i don t know where it s coming from or who it s going to hit or who is going to push the button. january 11th, 2008, soldiers
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roads looking for these bombs, looking for indicators that bombs are there, that they ve been placed there. so we try to find them and we use various equipment to locate it, detect it, dig it up. he obsessively videotapes their whole deployment. i m going to bring my video camera and just have a camera record everything. so i just have the camera on the dash of my vehicle. gunner ben winchester also films, mainly with his helmet cam. [ gunfire ] i just wanted to catch something. i wasn t exactly sure what i was going to catch. i was going to afghanistan. i know it s the real deal over there. april 2009, the unit captures on camera a frightening day when they re hit with multiple ieds. we re driving down the road and we get hit in the middle of nowhere. there was no indicators, there was no markers.
soldiers gather around to watch it. the first time we watched the video, i think we all said the exact same thing that i said on the video. oh because even though we d watched the scene unfold in real life, you still don t see it coming. that s a lot of like patting on the back like, glad you made it through. the only reason that i think we didn t get blown up was the triggerman was a little slow or didn t have his timing right. i think maybe we were moving faster than he anticipated. the entire squad spends the next five days scouring the area of the explosion for the insurgents responsible for the attack. although they never find the men who planted the ied, they do eventually secure this area of mosul and rebuild the road for safe passage. it s one of those things where it s very personal when you get attacked. i ve had a lot of ieds blow up on my vehicle, even on my door of my vehicle. i ve had snipers shoot at me. this one wasn t directed at my