Counter Threat Day 2.

• Starting the day off with a bang, before the second cup of coffee we watch four guys blown up on videos.  The keys to IEDs are the PIES it is explained to us, because everything in government needs an acronym and there is virtue in something memorable, and apparently if not also something ironic.  We learn that IEDs are classified by the type of switch.  An IED could be triggered by a doorbell; "Avon calling"  or  "Land Shark" . The most important thing to remember is that, counter to what we might expect in relationships, "distance is your friend".  Is that the kin of, "absence makes the heart grow fonder"?  Is it some secret reason some of us go to Iraq.  Apparently the explosive meth lab makers who shoot these explosives into their arms do not know that distance is their friend, or at least more true a friend.