Canadian cowboy 'Mantracker' trains Brits to spot IEDs
Terry Grant, from the TV series ‘Mantracker,’ shows British soldiers a method for spotting IEDs during a training exercise in Alberta, Canada.
The Canadian cowboy and reality TV star "Mantracker" is training British soldiers how to spot IEDs when they're in Afghanistan.
The cowboy, star and professional tracker is Terry Grant, aged 52, famed for his show in which he tracks contestants over vast swathes of the Canadian wilderness.
Now, he's passing on his unique ground sign awareness skills to the soldiers of 7th Armoured Brigade (the Desert Rats) who're set to deploy to Afghanistan next year.
The Desert Rats are currently training on Exercise Prairie Thunder 1 at the British Army Training Unit Suffield located in the heart of the vast plains of Alberta in west Canada.
Insurgents killed six Afghan civilians and wounded three more in roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan yesterday, military officials reported. Four civilians were killed and three others were wounded when a bomb detonated in Zabul province's Mizan district. The wounded were airlifted to a military medical facility in Qalat.
In Nimroz province's Khash Rod district, two Afghan civilians were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb. Earlier yesterday, numerous civilians reportedly were killed when their bus struck a roadside bomb in the Khash Rod district, officials said.
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, July 27, 2010 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he is "appalled" by the breach of security represented by the Wikileaks case.
Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told reporters traveling with him that the leaks could put American servicemembers at risk. Investigators are still sifting through some 90,000 classified documents to determine the exact harm that the release could bring, he said.
The chairman said the information is older – from 2004 to 2009 – and this may mitigate the situation to an extent. Many of the documents are field reports covering the situation in Pakistan.
Special Report - 07/30/10
