
BLAST PROTECTION — U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Charles Hodge, left, from the 451st Air Expeditionary Group, and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Victor Fontan, right, from the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal, tape the ends of two wire cables to the two 105mm mortars that will be placed under a half-inch-thick metal armor plate on Sept. 2, 2005, just outside Kandahar Airfield Base, Afghanistan. This is a simulation of what a land mine does to the half-inch-thick metal armor that is going to be placed on the bottom floor of a Humvee. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Leslie Angulo