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News Releases New on YouTube: LANL helps save lives on today's battlefields
LANL course on homemade bombs protects troops
Apr. 22, 2010—A new LANL video posted to YouTube shows how Lab scientists and bomb squad technicians are helping save lives on today's battlefields.
The video chronicles a March 31 training course for New Mexico National Guard members at TA-49.
Since its inception, the course has taught nearly 200 warfighters and others how to find and deal with home-made explosives such as those found in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The video is embedded below and posted to the Lab's YouTube page.
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