EOD...What does it take.

[wotsnext]

As the Army mourns the death of another bomb disposal specialist, what does it take to do this perilous job?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8459859.stm

[walsallfc]

an extra set of balls

[happyslapper]

an extra set of balls

made of reinforced steel

[2495]

Calm, precision, accuracy, calm, balls of steel, precision, extra large balls of steel...

EOD and ATO - the two roles I would buy beer all night for no questions asked.

[walsallfc]

made of reinforced steel
then some balls made of depleted uranium

[nemowork]

Whatever it is, i have a healthy respect for any man who will calmly walk into anything i'm accelerating out of.

[Hollos]

EOD and ATO, r nicknamed Felix's after a cats 9 lives as they need all of them having seem them at work there better men than me

[2495]

321 EOD - Felix memorial garden. NI.

http://www.palacebarracksmemorialgarden.org/Felix%20Memorial%20Garden.htm

[lunte]

big balls and nerves of steel!

[Abolith]

What does it take? .... More than I have.. My Hat's off those guys.

[ferguson]

We had a small ammo dump used for quick resupply by some SOG guys.
They had chopper fuel stacked right next to it.
The fuel got hit and cooked off the rockets and linked 40mm.

Next day there was unexploded stuff all over the place.
They flew in some EOD giys for the clean up.

One genius-an E7, even, shot a rocket about 20 feet from him-and me with his M14.

It detonated and a big chunk shattered his leg.
I was ready to shatter his stoopid skull.

He was not representative of a good EOD guy.