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I took pride in knowing how much C4 to shove up a bulls butt to blow his horns off without making his eye's water.......IED's aren't tough if you can find em before they find you. Tough parts are the ambushes laid for us as they set off a small one, get a response then set off a series of larger ones and get more of a response and then snipe at us as we recon the area for additional IED's......

IT IS A TEAM EFFORT for EOD and their """security teams""" of soldiers, airmen and marines in the current conflict. Robotics make it easier, not safer. More technology involved these days ....too many gotchas !

BZ to this tech. As gone are my days as a EOD tech. Back when men were men and sheep were afraid, we strode carefully down range to the suspect device with a demo knife, roll of electrical tape, a set of Dupont No 5 crimper's vs the crap M3's issued. Wit a prepped 50 caliber dearmer, a JROD or just a few blocks of C-4 and a firing wire reel and or a few setups with M60 igniter's and time fuse......

Different times , different methods........but too be fair the crop of EOD techs coming out of this conflict are second too none before them. They are up to their butts in IED's on a daily basis.

Kudos to those taking their turn in the barrel !!

My only regret that makes me feel bad is we can't find or render all of em safe before they function as designed / intended. People die when we fail to find em in time. I took that personally as I am sure the current EOD techs in theater do as well today. I know it's impossible to think such is possible yet......

Thus our Motto in EOD......... Initial Success or Total Failure.........

Stay Safe .....