Two Dutch Army specialists were slightly wounded when one device exploded after it had been removed.
In that way specialized Western-type training was grafted onto the traditional system to produce specialists for the army.
Byron Lima Oliva, and an army specialist, Obdulio Villaneuva, were arrested last week.
Brigadier Ben Barry, a land army specialist at the London-based Itternatisnal Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "It is quite clear.
US army specialist Bradley Manning, the rumoured source of the Apache video, has disappeared into US custody in Kuwait.
Brigette McCoy, a former army specialist and a Gulf war veteran, was 18 when she was raped, she told lawmakers.
Specialist Chris Rolan, an army medic, was sentenced to 33 years in prison in 2007 for killing a fellow soldier after a night of heavy drinking in Iraq.
She has been staying at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, to help her daughter, a specialist in an army unit, care for her own 5-month-old daughter.
All generations of servicemen and women have lost some of their own; the death count spans Army Specialist Michael Mihalakis, 18, to Sgt. Floyd G. Knighten Jr., 55.
US army specialist Charles Graner was accused of stacking naked prisoners in a human pyramid and later ordering them to masturbate while other soldiers took photographs at the prison, near Baghdad.
