Hi Archy,
In training, we were constantly told that if we conducted 1000’s of successful operations throughout our careers but failed to follow appropriate procedures, took a shortcut, failed to conduct all investigations/render safe procedures in the same professional manner and a tragedy occurred due to our error, we and the incident would be referenced in future training classes forever.
I offer my prayers for those who lost their lives in this incident and that action is taken to make every effort to ensure it isn’t repeated in the future.
God bless our Military Personnel and their families !
EODGUY
Which is how I'd want to be remembered, so that my goofup could be a serious object lesson that might save someone else's life if they ever considered a shortcut or skipped a safety check.
I learned just enough about UXO and IEDs to know that I'd really rather deal with them as little as possible- particularly mines. But what we'd prefer is not always how it works out.