So yet another Canadian soldier was killed on a routine patrol in a hostile area by an improvised explosive device, or IED as they call them.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/So...147/story.html
The article says what we already know, which is,
"Like McKay, most of the Canadian casualties have been caused by improvised explosive devices buried in the sand by insurgents. Relatively few of the Canadians who have died were killed in firefights with the enemy."
There has to be a better way. Can't someone pilot a device to walk in front of the patrol, heavy enough to trigger the mine before the soldier is close enough to receive serious harm? Or can't there be some kind of detector device that scoots ahead and detects abnormal amounts of metal and/or explosives?
The guerilla tactics employed in Afghanistan are not possible to overcome if they can just pick off our soldiers without putting themselves at risk. We need to be doing more to prevent these kinds of deaths.
RIP Private McKay.