[operation clinton cleanup]

Water puts out WP. Thermite is another matter. It carries its own chemically bonded oxygen supply so it can not be put out with water. In fact when you dump water on it you get steam explosions.

Ooops! As a former munitions troop, I should have remembered that.... I knew there was some nasty stuff where water was not the solution!

[Syntyr]

No problemo ;-)

I had a freind who was EOD for a while after he did 2 tours as a "tech rep" for the airforce. He escorted nuclear weapons.

He had some of the best stories... Like the time when some chains broke on 5000 pound practice bombs they were hauling through town. 3 rolled off the flat bed. 1 Went through a drugstore, 1 crunched a VW Bug, and the 3rd one flattened a US mail box.