Posted on Mar 21, 2023
How good of a job is EOD? Do y’all enjoy what you do? What are the high and low points?
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How good of a job is EOD. Do y’all enjoy what you do? What are the high and low points ?
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It seems like in EOD it's not possible to have more than one bad day, I guess that's an up side.
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SPC (Join to see) Because if you make a mistake and blow up... Well, dead people don't have to go to work. Hunt the good stuff.
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I am a retired USMC EOD and loved it! Was it all roses? No, but it was a lot more good times than bad! The school is long but once it's over, you get to learn from the experiences of the guys before you. EOD opened up so much for me. I am now the Corporate Environmental Health and Saftey Manager for a company that builds inflators for airbags.
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I was never EOD, but I worked a lot with explosives. At the end of each day, if you can count all your fingers and toes, you have had a good day. Because I was the deployed 12B, I got to "check out" the found land mines, traced down charges that failed to go off. I lived a very "sheltered " life in explosives, not EOD, but it was good
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CPT Lawrence Cable
Never truss a demo guy that has all his fingers. Now I would modify that to just never trust a demo man that hasn't screwed one up and lived to tell about it.
My Company was at a demo range at an unnamed Post and learned a couple of lessons.
For a change, we had a bunch of misc. demo, C4, Det Cord, TNT and a bunch of old boxes of Dynamite. That stuff hadn't been turned on schedules, so we had nitro leaks in the boxes, so the range officers were having them take full boxes down and blowing it with TNT pop and drops. The other demo going on was cutting metal and rails with C4. The soldiers were taking advantage of the abundance and got a little bit over enthused about the quantities they used to cut rails. The last round actually launched a railroad rail and showered the grandstand with shrapnel. How no one was hit was an act of God.
Then the box of old dynamite misfired and instead of blowing it up, it just scattered it around. I went down with the range guys and my most experienced blaster to clean it up. It wasn't pretty, but we finally got everything into a sump and blew it in place.
The rest of my time with that company, I had some of the most careful and professional blasters I had ever seen. Something about a 10' rail plummeting earth just in front of where everyone was seated, along with the shrapnel, seemed to have improved their abilities about 100%.
My Company was at a demo range at an unnamed Post and learned a couple of lessons.
For a change, we had a bunch of misc. demo, C4, Det Cord, TNT and a bunch of old boxes of Dynamite. That stuff hadn't been turned on schedules, so we had nitro leaks in the boxes, so the range officers were having them take full boxes down and blowing it with TNT pop and drops. The other demo going on was cutting metal and rails with C4. The soldiers were taking advantage of the abundance and got a little bit over enthused about the quantities they used to cut rails. The last round actually launched a railroad rail and showered the grandstand with shrapnel. How no one was hit was an act of God.
Then the box of old dynamite misfired and instead of blowing it up, it just scattered it around. I went down with the range guys and my most experienced blaster to clean it up. It wasn't pretty, but we finally got everything into a sump and blew it in place.
The rest of my time with that company, I had some of the most careful and professional blasters I had ever seen. Something about a 10' rail plummeting earth just in front of where everyone was seated, along with the shrapnel, seemed to have improved their abilities about 100%.
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CSM William Everroad
CPT Lawrence Cable - Sounds like they violated the first rule of steel cutting!
I have a few of those stories, but one of my favorites was when we were doing some "tests" for the army and an inexperienced firing line NCO ran det cord from the charges to the initiator. Called me because "something didn't feel right" about the system. Thankfully the RSO held the shot until I got there.
I have a few of those stories, but one of my favorites was when we were doing some "tests" for the army and an inexperienced firing line NCO ran det cord from the charges to the initiator. Called me because "something didn't feel right" about the system. Thankfully the RSO held the shot until I got there.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
CSM William Everroad - Yes, no matter how idiot proof we make things, they keep making better idiots.
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