Terms and tools of the trade
• EOD : Explosive Ordinance Disposal team
• Three-person team: robot operator / explosives handler / team leader
• Escorted by a 15- to 20-Marine security detail
• Approach: Use the robot’s cameras to investigate IEDs. Use the robot to deliver TNT or C-4 to detonate IED when possible.
• IED : Improvised Explosive Device (roadside bomb)
• MRAP : Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle: A heavily armored vehicle that can withstand most IED blasts.
• TNT : Trinitrotoluene (dynamite): used to detonate IEDs.
• C-4 : Plastic explosive: stronger than TNT, used to detonate IEDs.
• Robot : carries four video cameras and a robotic arm with claw.
Minor correction, technically, TNT and dynamite are not the same thing.