The FReeper Foxhole Studies the Origins of the EOD - January 11th, 2004

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[PhilDragoo]

Unit YACHSAP American made Andrews EOD robot in an IDF demonstration. Note the robot's shotgun on the right side and the robot's operating system on the left. Seen in the background on the right side is an IDF ATV.

Unit YACHSAP mobile EOD tank used to contain the blast of explosive charges.

Operator checking guns and ammunition captured on the Karin A Palestinian ship, January 2001.

Donna Seligman, EOD Ball 2000 Chairperson

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Indiana State Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team is regularly called on by both local and federal law enforcement agencies to dispose of explosive devices and outdated chemicals. The team, which includes 11 certified bomb technicians and more than 35 members trained in Explosive Ordnance Recognition, averages between 25 and 30 render safes or disarmed devices per year.

Half of all calls received are David Letterman's mother misdialing.

Can you spot the anti-personnel mine?
A mine lying amidst apparently casually discarded debris.

A sapper from 2 Commando Troop of 33 EOD Regiment attaches a hook and line to a landmine.

Then, from a safe distance, the mine is pulled from its location to see if it has been booby-trapped, before work starts to make it safe.

The ordnance is carefully lifted by the machine operator.

Jeesus! Run!

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

Half of all calls received are David Letterman's mother misdialing.

LOL! This is one job that you have to have nerves of steel and the patience of a Saint to do. I don't qualify on either count.

Steaming out the high explosive filling from a 500kg bomb

[Professional Engineer]

The fuzzy dice was a nice touch. LOL.

I'd had those for my first car. The troops didn't know about them until I showed up with 'em, and asked if they wanted to use 'em.

When we got flagged down by the brass, the dice were the first thing they wanted to see.

I wish I had pictures. Never thought of it at the time.

[SAMWolf]

Yeah you never have a camera handy when you really need one, of course there were times I'm glad no one had a camera handy.

[w_over_w]

Evening Grace Snip & Sam~

Facinating read . . . mercy what a career!

Sam, how does the EOD differ from the guys that went into the NV camps and checked for booby-traps? Or is there a difference?

Take your time, we're getting ready to watch "Run Silent, Run Deep" (Santa gave it to me), so I'll check back before "lights out". Thanks.

[U S Army EOD]

You forgot the photo of a Mk 1 Mod 0 pipe wrench which we actually used most of the time.

[SAMWolf]

Evening w_over_w.

Sam, how does the EOD differ from the guys that went into the NV camps and checked for booby-traps? Or is there a difference?

If you're talking about the "Tunnel Rats" they were just the smallest guy avaialable at the time as far as I know they weren't necessarily EOD. I know the Engineers sometimes got called for the job. When I was in Germany in an Ordnance Company, I got a crash course in useing det-cord and shaped charges but never any training in disarming ordnance.

Gatorbait, EOD wanna take tihs one?

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Phil. We can always count on you for some great pictures!

[U S Army EOD]

Yep if you can't defeat the fuze remove the explosive. Put a stream of acid on the case to eat a hole in it and then steam the explosives out. You just have to make sure you keep the process going so the explosives want resolidify and form explosive crystals.

[snippy_about_it]

I had fuzzy hearts. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Good evening w_over_w.

[SAMWolf]

For some reason that reminds me of the movie "Sorceror", where they had to transport the old, sweating dynamite across the mountains somewhere in South America.

[U S Army EOD]

Sometimes the unit would take EOD people in with them. We also taught EOR or Explosive Ordnance Recon to other units. A lot of people did this in Vietnam who were not EOD qualified and got pretty good at it. However, in my personal experiences, after a unit started getting more than their share of casulties doing this, they would call in EOD support. This in some cases included Engineers. Myself and men in my unit ran many a patrol with the infrantry. I would be in a patrol with a LT. or some Sergeant and I was a Captain. I would be quick to explain to the patrol leader that he was still the patrol leader and to the rest of the patrol, don't ask me what to do if we got ambushed or something. I would tell the lowest private in the patrol if we took casualties and it got down to me and him, I would be willing to discuss options.
I also told them don't even think to ask to carry some of my equipment, hold anything for me, salute or do anything else to indicate I might be important or something.

[SAMWolf]

I finally got the "Dr Strangelove" DVD that was ordered for Christmas. Now I have to find the time to watch it.

[SAMWolf]

I also told them don't even think to ask to carry some of my equipment, hold anything for me, salute or do anything else to indicate I might be important or something.

Good plan.

Try to look unimportant, the bad guys may be low on ammunition. (Murphy's Sixth Rule of combat)

[U S Army EOD]

You put the sweating dynamine in acetone or diesel fuel. If you are going to use acetone you always try to make sure your container isn't leaking down through the floor of your van on to the exhaust pipe of your van in turn setting it on fire going down I 95 as the 147th EOD from Fort Lee managed to do one day.

[SAMWolf]

Oops! I bet someone caught hell for that one. I think in the movie they just packed all the crates in sawdust and sandbagged them.

[U S Army EOD]

In real life they would have probably never made it.

[SAMWolf]

Most of them didn't in the movie either. Made of a good flick though.

[PhilDragoo]

Wrench, Mk 1 Mod 0, Pipe Type, Non-Sparking

Developed in conjunction with the U.S. Military, this is the only multi-function tool certified
for Explosive Ordnance Disposal units.