[Travis McGee]

Big time! I forget all those message traffic code words to do with those incidents, but I remember how they went to the top of the FLASH pile! One of our contingency ops was always to be ready to go anywhere anytime (and I mean anywhere) to secure an area where one came down. No kidding, real world contingency ops. It never happened that I was aware of, but I knew that if certain messages came, we would drop everything and get ready to jump onto an area to secure it. Real bullets and everything, and even in other countries, with or without their permission or knowledge.

[U S Army EOD]

I know quite a few guys that worked on real incidents during the 60's when it seemed it was raining B52's. Nothing ever went as planned. Initiative and logic will get you through.

[Travis McGee]

PS: I should have added that we would have dragged along a few EOD guys to actually deal with the device. We would just be security, sort of first-responders.

[U S Army EOD]

By the way, we have a guy who lives near me that went into UDT in 1943 and stayed with that and SEALS plus a little Navy EOD until 1973. His name is Henry Staples. He is in the movie Frogmen with Richard Widmark.

And speaking of Navy EOD, rent the Elvis movie, "Girls, Girls, Girls" Elvis is a Navy EOD guy.