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Gates, Pace Call on Congress to Fund IED Research
Blackanthem Military News, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Defense leaders yesterday called on Congress to approve a to approve a further $2.4 billion to defeat the biggest killer of Americans in the Middle East: the improvised explosive device.
...to approve a further $2.4 billion to defeat the biggest killer of Americans in the Middle East: the improvised explosive device.
...to approve a further $2.4 billion to defeat the biggest killer of Americans in the Middle East: the improvised explosive device.
...to approve a further $2.4 billion to defeat the biggest killer of Americans in the Middle East: the improvised explosive device.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the fiscal 2007 emergency supplemental request includes money to fund research into defeating IEDs. The money is in addition to $2 billion Congress already has appropriated this year to deal with the problem.
Gates stressed to the senators that this is an overriding concern in DoD. "The most unpleasant aspect of my job is every night going home and hand-writing notes to the families of those who have been killed in action," Gates said. "And there's a sheet behind every one of those letters that tells me how they died, and about 70 percent of them are the IEDs. So the whole Department of Defense is as highly motivated as an organization can be to try and figure out a way to get around these."
