Pressure Plate: A Perspective on Counter IED Operations in Southern Afghanistan 2008-2009
Colonel Ed Toy was selected to serve as the chief of staff for Joint Task Force Paladin in 2008 as part of the Combined Joint Task Force 101 and the International Security Assistance Forces branch chief for counterimprovised explosive device at the Regional Command South, Afghanistan. Fighting a determined enemy who mastered the art of using IEDs as a principle weapon of choice, Colonel Toy and his international team of warriors launched an aggressive CIED campaign in RC-South to defeat this threat. His small but effective staff made up of coalitions forces installed a progressive CIED campaign that resulted in an increase number of IEDs destroyed, insurgent networks attacked and eliminated, and untold number of US, Coalition, and Afghan lives saved!