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U . S . Army personnel partnered with

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their Kenyan host to discuss techniques

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on how to properly identify disable and

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handle improvised explosive devices .

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Or I . E . D . S . Military members

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from five other East African coalition

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countries joined together to observe

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safety procedures and explosives

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handling . The challenges we have is

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the , how we can counter the I . E . Ds

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is a very new thing to us . The U . S .

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Trained officers and senior N . C . O .

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S . From these countries focusing on

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identifying I . E . Ds from dismounted

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and mounted positions , hand signal

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communication and I . E . D . Assembly .

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Afterward the students became the

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instructors to pass on what they had

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learned to others . We found that their

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military is highly disciplined and it's

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just been a great experience for all of

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us personally . I've learned a lot

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about how the military works and it's

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actually very similar to the way ours

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works as far as discipline , rank

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structure and just a general way that

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they go about conducting their business .

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Some of the some of our partners from

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these other nations , they haven't had

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any formal training encounter I'd . So

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they're very receptive to this training

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and they realize that this is a real

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threat . As part of their graduation

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ceremony , students assembled and

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detonated a confidence charge which is

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a small explosive to gain a hands on

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understanding of the missions that lie

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ahead . Such kind of jobs is good that

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we are getting somewhere . The

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relationship is quite good . I like

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that . That is to me personally , I

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like it from the combined joint task

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force , Horn of Africa , I am Petty

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Officer timothy Wilson .