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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SGM 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
SGM William Everroad - Yes, no matter how idiot proof we make things, they keep making better idiots.
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I was around some EOD teams downrange back in the day. Can't speak much to them other than they were arrogant and had cool equipment.
I did work closely with a couple EOD-qualified officers in the 101st. They were working in logistics at the time, but their training in EOD made them well-rounded and tough leaders. They spoke about EOD school as not only giving them expertise, but helping them to become the type of the leaders they wanted to be. One left the Army and went on to work in D.C. doing high-speed secret squirrel operations as a contractor involved with the Department of Energy.
I did work closely with a couple EOD-qualified officers in the 101st. They were working in logistics at the time, but their training in EOD made them well-rounded and tough leaders. They spoke about EOD school as not only giving them expertise, but helping them to become the type of the leaders they wanted to be. One left the Army and went on to work in D.C. doing high-speed secret squirrel operations as a contractor involved with the Department of Energy.
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Never served as EOD, always had EOD within my units AOR and they reported to my HQ. They are an amazing group of individuals who risk their lives everyday on the battlefield (yes we all do) in ways that are hard to fathom. They operate mostly autonomously, they almost never have cover, they encounter enemy fire while in the process of there duties with little to no support. As the units they are supporting, or the family dwellings they are trying to save, are performing their mission and living their lives.
These men and women, are of amazing inner personal strength with hearts of Warriors, performing HEROIC acts routinely on the battlefield. I DO NOT WIELD HERIIC often. All Soldiers who face the fight are Warriors, only those who step above the rest in the heat of battle saving the lives of their fellow service member or civilian, or advancing the mission against all odds are HEROS to me.
EOD are hero’s I could tell you the good and the bad in more horrific detail, but I think this paints a picture.
Much Respect. Keep in mind this is my perspective having watched many different NCOs perform these roles in combat and peace Enforcement operation.
In closing, when they operated in my sphere of responsibility, they always had cover, even if it was just me an my security team.
These men and women, are of amazing inner personal strength with hearts of Warriors, performing HEROIC acts routinely on the battlefield. I DO NOT WIELD HERIIC often. All Soldiers who face the fight are Warriors, only those who step above the rest in the heat of battle saving the lives of their fellow service member or civilian, or advancing the mission against all odds are HEROS to me.
EOD are hero’s I could tell you the good and the bad in more horrific detail, but I think this paints a picture.
Much Respect. Keep in mind this is my perspective having watched many different NCOs perform these roles in combat and peace Enforcement operation.
In closing, when they operated in my sphere of responsibility, they always had cover, even if it was just me an my security team.
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no experience but my guess would be a high point is disarming something that could injure or kill others and the low point would be failing at that task
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Purely depends on command and branch. Some places better than others. When we get to work like EOD is supposed to we love it, when we have to deal with big army nonsense it’s a shit deal.
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SPC (Join to see) pointless formations, toxic leaders, worrying about stupid things that have nothing to do with combat effectiveness, playing the ncoer/oer games, basically living your life counting days to ets because some nco or O decided to suck off command teams at the cost of their guys moral.
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