[archy]

"We had one where a soldier died trying to remove a bomb from a telephone pole."

Indeed we did.

SSG Kim A. [Fahnstalk] Voelz, EOD, R.I.P.

[Arkinsaw]

And why was the telephone pole so important? Blowing it up would be better and perhaps this soldier would be alive. Was this soldier an expert on bomb disposal and disarmament?