These are the time I wish we could just let natural selection do it’s thing, but fine I GUESS it’s more responsible to tell the people not to eat the spicy play doh 🙄 😂
"A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody." -Schlock Mercenary
No shit, there I was moment… As a kid my dad was stationed in Germany on an AF base during GW#1. Some airman decided to mail his son a new game system from Saudi Arabia: an original Nintendo Gameboy. And dad decided to make sure it worked before he sent it, so dad put the batteries in and played a few rounds to test it out. Y’all remember what game they came with from the factory? Tetris. Y’all remember what noise a Tetris game made sitting stagnant? That’s right! Steady BEEPS!!!! Well, it apparently turned itself in in transit and began playing by itself, and when it was in the post office on base it began beeping. So 10yo me and my buddies felt this amazing *BOOM* heard all over base. All because the local EOD boys had an old Patton Tank as their EOD tool. They took the box, sat it on the range, drove up to it in the tank & blasted it from point blank.
My favorite eod quote was this. “How do you deal with the stress of diffusing bombs?” “It’s actually not that stressful. I either do it right or it’s no longer my problem.”
My dad had a friend who was an EOD tech in Vietnam, they seized a whole train full of explosives and the CO gave them 24 hours to dispose of all of it. Their solution was to dig a massive trench and dump in alternating layers of explosives and det. cord, run really far a way, and light the det. cord. The explosion blew out the windows in the hotel the CO was staying in a mile away.
@@williamcarey813 Same please. I need to print that simply to explain to anybody who ever says "solve it yourself" to me and I can give them a ballpark on how bad that idea would be.
While in Jr high or early in High School I once ACCIDENTALLY made a fuel air bomb. It was only an accident because I didn't know what a fuel air bomb WAS at the time. I placed an unlit propane torch with the valve open in one corner of the shed I was tasked with demolishing after prepping the building by sealing all the doors and windows and placing a lit candle on a bar stool in the opposite corner. The payment for the demo job was nowhere NEAR enough to cover the windows I had to replace in the house a couple hundred yards away.
I love EOD. Hated the wait times but, you know shit happens. First time I ever nearly pissed myself laughing, an EOD tech took apart two stacked anti-tank mines...and he paused mid-work to take picture of his testicles on said mines.
Long freaking hours of waiting...traffic backed up at least 5 miles....and you better be alert to the "fire in the hole!!! warning! ( MSR Tampa, Irak 2005, several times a week)
We had a guy in supply attached to our fob who decided that he would stick his d*** in the mk-19 barrel because and I quote the hole in the barrel looked so inviting
It's shit like this that makes me proud to be EOD because we are one big family of highly dysfunctional individuals with questionable morals and we have pet unicorns but the best part is blowing shit up hands down
@@dudester7876 Hell yeah! Regardless of how our accents may differ, the “Brotherhood (and Sisters) of the Boom” are a family like no other. Mad as a cut snake and only one step short of a Psych Discharge…. but hey…. Who else will do the sh!t we do. Stay safe and keep booming. (Aussie ex-EOD)
On Enterprise in 96 we had to call EOD for a dropped fuse that armed itself. This SOB walks into the magazine with a cup of coffee (had to get him out of his rack for this) wearing nothing but a t-shirt, silkies and shower shoes, picked up the fuse and walked up to the hangar bay and chucked it out the aircraft elevator door into the ocean, then went back to berthing.
@@oldlyswansea to be fair, if you're EOD on a warship then a fuse is probably the smallest explosion you'd ever see. Also if the fuse detonated the magazine, well that suit isn't going to do shit
A fun joke that describes EOD: A police officer is securing a location with a suspicious package near the Class 6. A retired EOD tech walks up and asks what's going on. Police: there's a possible bomb blocking the liquor store. We're waiting for our bomb squad. EOD: well I was EOD for 20 years, can I take a look? Police: ok just look though. Be careful The EOD tech approached the package and looked all around it. After a minute he kicked it and jumped behind a low wall. After no explosion he stands up and tells the cop "it's clear!" And walks in to buy his booze.
Never stand between a vet at beer30 and said beer at 30 lesson learned funny story my wife works at a hospitle theres was a bimb threat someone thought some other person left a grenade just laying in the hospital parking lot my wife sent me a pic of the device from the third story of her building ....first off lemme say im a civilian but i loves me the military because almost every man in my family has fought a war for america wich has afforded me the ability to raise a family in pretty mutch totall peace so ive done my studdying i wish i vould post the pic but from about 150 yrds away on a iphone picture i could tell that this wasnt an explosive also my years of playing paintball as a teenager indicated to me it was a shitty tippman paint grenade wich is a bike innertube with a fold over pressurised w paint pul the pin cap loosens gits spray paint from holes i told her that she was worried because the police said it looked like a pineapple grenade due to the net that holds it together when bomb squad got there the dude walked up to it stomp popped it and told everyone to move on with their day whilst covered in red paint had the best this is why you always trust what you husband says moment after that she lost a half day of work worrying about a device that even if it were real only has maybey a 15 ft kill radius she woulda felt and heard the boom but still bee fine behind the concrete of the hospital they are sorta fortified almost like if theres a fight the hospital may be attacked and need to handle an explosion or two
@@kermit8173 two things one stop being a grammar nazi And 2 show me where this effects my life at all i have this thing called an aplicable skill set im a master of creating shit with my hand 130k a year kind of master last i checked being an english teacher nets you about 60 k a year and thats being generous when it effect my bottom line only then does it become worth my time im perfectly ok knowing it bothers you infact im really happy it does just know theres thousands of un puncuated comments out there ive left behind hope it makes your skin crawl i hope that news feels like nails on a chalkboard to you Youd think all the broke english teachers were online correcting people like its a side hustle to afford thier rammen
Yuma sucks. I only spent a total of 4 months there. And when the weather was nice and it still sucked. Yeah felt like a divorce every time. Semper fi. Hope you and yours are happy and healthy if you are reading this!!
An old neighbor and family friend was a retired FBI agent and went to bomb school. He was one of the first boots on the ground after the Oklahoma City bombing. Guy drank Crown Royal with a splash of water. He kept a Tommy Gun and a sniper in the trunk of his vintage jaguar, and somehow had an SAW in his basement, plus a lot of handguns and really badass knives. I was really little when I heard this but my older brother once said something like, “Hey Mr. Bill it’s really cool that you were an FBI agent you must’ve been great.” One of my earliest memories is his response word for word. He sincerely grabs my brother on the shoulder, takes a breath and goes: “Michael, they don’t send their best guys to bomb school.” 😂😂😂 RIP Mr. Bill
My grandpa was an EOD tech, marksmanship trainer, and detective. If you ever watched the original Walking Tall, he was built like Bufford Pusser and about as no nonsense. He also had an 8th grade education, or so was claimed.
Reminds me of the conversation I had with a lieutenant when he found me sleeping on a bomb trailer loaded with 4 Mk 84's (2000 lb. bombs). "Aren't you afraid they are going to go off?" Nope, if they go off, I'll never wake up.
@@TheGeocacheHunterThat would be because the fuse only activates when they are dropped from their rack from the aircraft, correct? That, and the US doesn't like using unstable explosives for something like that. They prefer reliable (but strong) explosives. Not military, so I might be wrong. Please let me know if so.
@airplanemaniacgaming7877 it's because the explosives aren't impact detonated (at least more than the forces made by smacking the ground from altitude). You are close with the fuse. There is a windmill/generator that spins while falling, making power for the fuse to function once the programmed conditions are met.
I was a Navy MP in Yokosuka Japan . One day a Postal Clerk heard a ticking sound in a parcel . We evacuated the PO and set a perimeter . The Navy EOD Det showed up . It was a wind up alarm clock being sent to a sailor on the USS Midway from his wife .
@@jrsharker23 When the EOD guy showed up and heard a ticking box, it probably made his day. "Phew, audible ticking. Either this is a clock, or whoever made this is so incompetent that this is going to be easy".
One of my most memorable interactions with a eod team, we were chillin in the TOC, eod was sitting on the floor tinkering with a big metal container. Somebody semi-panicked walked in and asked wtf that was. It was an extra large coffee pot. They were trying to fix the wiring.
My neighbor is retired EOD and when this video dropped just now I went sprinting to his house to show him. He laughed and said he had all those in Iraq minus the propane tank. He followed that with yeah F that suit. Loved it man keep up! Edit: you got a new sub tonight from him!! And the T-shirts showed up today, we love the feel quality!
I’m a retired EOD Tech. I did 21 yr, 1 month and 19 days then medically discharged for being blown up too many times. I loved the job though. Civilian life is boring after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan a total of 4 deployments. It’s hard trying to find that same rush of almost dying. Hence the motto “Initial Success or Total Failure”.
Im about to get med boarded out after doing 20 yrs. I cant find anything to keep me interest. Depression is starting to really eat at my soul. Got any tips?
@@bombdoctor007 yup, try a fireworks factory, a mine, a demolition company (though that's more Engineer than EOD, y'all aren't that good with practical uses for explosives) Castles over Crabs Essayons
My Uncle George was EOD in Vietnam. He never talked about his purple heart, I had to read in a news story how he chased down a fellow soldier who was on fire, bulldogged and rolled him around in the mud, putting the fire out with his bare hands.
Heard about a suicide bomber that wired his car to blow up and ran it into a Bradley. It made the car inoperable and trapped the driver (alive) inside. But the bomb didn't go off. Long story, short: The Bradley drove away and EOD came and helped the bomb blow up. Driver was not even a pink mist.
@@SuperRedraptorto quote Hawkeye from M.A.S.H. "War is War, and Hell is Hell, and I'd rather be in hell." _"Well why's that?"_ "There are no innocent people in hell."
EOD - The science of vague assumptions based on debatable data taken from inconclusive experiments with instruments of problematic accuracy by persons of questionable mentality.
Sorry dude. There are some online communities you're welcome to join if you're not already active in them. Much respect to your brother, and your fam. I'm EOD '01-08
Another common way EOD renders explosive devices safe is by shooting it with a Barrett .50-caliber rifle. Pretty much every EOD team will have one for that purpose. I remember one night in Iraq, our EOD team leader said he had spent that day out at the range with some of our scout platoon guys. (Our scout platoon had most, but not all, of our qualified snipers.) When I asked why, he explained that he obviously knew how to use the Barrett, load, unload, fire, etc, but really didn't know how to dial in the scope for range, wind, etc. So in exchange for the scout platoon guys showing him how to do that, he taught them how to blow down doors with det cord. 🤣🤣🤣
Another time, we sent him and the team out to render safe a car bomb that was attached to some Iraqi VIP's vehicle. He said based off his preliminary testing, he suspected the explosive that was used was HMX, a more powerful derivative of what's in C4. He's telling me about crawling underneath this car, in the bomb suit, with this thing a foot away from his head... Said it was the second closest time he came to dying on a deployment. Me: "Wait, that's the SECOND closest time?! What was the FIRST?!" He laughs and tells me that when he came back from R&R leave on his first deployment, as he was in-processing back in, nature called and he had to go find a port-a-john. Hadn't even drawn his weapon yet. So as he's sitting there, doing his business, the indirect fire sirens start going off-some insurgents were mortaring the FOB. He said rounds were landing pretty close to him, like 15 or 20 yards away. Luckily, the port-a-john was on some nice, soft sand, which helped absorb the explosions. He said the entire time he was just pushing his hands against the walls and screaming "Oh please God, not like THIS!" 🤣🤣🤣
@@iandegraff3472 Damn, It's actually kinda amazing how many people almost got whacked in the blue-box over there. My first immediate supervisor was an intel guy who was deployed to leatherneck back in 2007, had a mortar round hit less than five feet away from him when he was taking a dump. Chewed through his leg and he wound up spending almost a year getting reconstructive surgery after a massive case of sepsis from blue-water splashing on an open wound. Only one of the few guys I met who received a purple heart, by far the most nonchalant story telling I've ever been told of getting one, and he served out the rest of his 20 years to retirement just fine. Turns out that the intervening layers of plastic from the multiple blue-boxes around him actually absorbed most of the blast and saved his life. Said that was the only time he'd ever had the urge to kiss a toilet covered in poorly drawn dicks in his entire life.
@@mitchellthompson3025 That careful calculation is the difference between grunts' "field expedient problem solving" and some random idiot trying for a Darwin Award.
I would not want to fight an EOD. Those folks don't fear death and they probably don't fear God or fate, they certainly aren't going to be afraid of me.
It's not about lack of fear It's more of a "it won't be my problem if shit went wrong" but yeah I personally don't fear death and really enjoyed that job.
Can confirm. My dad was EOD and would regularly come back from deployments with stories. Most memorable was him almost being thrown into a lake hog-tied, and in the process he bit a chunk out of one guys leg before they could even try to throw him in.
Bombs are gonna do what they're gonna do. People are adaptive, less predictable, and more dangerous. As an EOD guy, I'd much rather work on a bomb than fight someone. It sounds nuts, but once you learn how ordnance works, what the hazards are, and how to mitigate them, EOD is not as crazy as it seems from the outside.
I worked with and became friends with a former Air Force EOD guy in the oil field. He was the squirrellyst som bitch I think I ever knew. I used to bring him monsters and watch him spin off to the fifth dimension. Solid, solid dude. Btw, I think you should review MREs.
There have been multiple times when i was in Iraq in 2004 where our battalion of Combat Engineers went out with EOD to provide security, blown up ordinance or just haul the IED back to base because the EOD tech wants to see how it works. Mind you this was in Mosul, Iraq 2004. Don't forget Combat Engineers do route clearance because the EOD has too much of a workload on their plate whenever we get in country. There were bounties on the heads of Special Forces, EOD and Combat Engineers back then. Fun times right????
Crabs over castles baby. But seriously I appreciate yall too. We had to do route clearance missions in 09-10 and it fucking sucks. But yeah I'll make jokes on yall all the time but we do appreciate what yall do.
@@gmat5046 trust and believe that’s pretty much what the EOD, Combat Engineers and Special Forces did when we heard this news. No matter what the job still has to get done
I lost a good friend of mine in Iraq in 06. I was a Tanker on one of the worst roads in Iraq for IEDs at the time. We had that many IEDs per day, our EOD gave up going in calls and just instructed us to have a good stand off distance and launch .50 cal round at it till it went boom or was determined to not be anything. My tank was the CSAMM tank(think 70 ton sniper) and we, I'm, dispatched, quiet a few giant bang suppositorys in the year I was there. EOD would come out if something just didn't feel right and bring their RC car and water charges and make it feel right. After that RC car was blown up enough times, rather then fix it, they'd get a new one. Well,I seen them getting ready huck one in the burn pit one time and asked if I could have it, to which I got a response of "fucking junk but it's yours if you want it". Absolutely I did. Packed it in a foot locker and still have it to this day(one day I might even fix the damn thing lol) EOD Tech, Gunny Boatman RIP Brother.
I would highly recommend a book called "Braver Men Walk Away" by Peter Gurney. The journey of a young Englishman from Army ammunition examiner clearing up weapons caches in Postwar Germany to Chief EOD for the Metropolitan Police in London. It was an interesting life
I feel like if the EOD is working then even the officers near by will come up with new ideas Geneva never thought of and will cover the cost of what they used to put you in the forever box. Or blame it on the grunts.
Served with a former EOD tech in the air force, one of the darkest dudes I knew. We where lineman and both on the same pole one day and I gaffed out, just as my brain was starting to think "On shit, I'm going to break something", he caught my arm and said "I got you bro" . His name was Brown, I don't think I'll ever forget him saving my ass.
When I was in the Army, I knew an old EOD dude. He told me about taking a claymore mine, popping it open with his knife, pulling the C4 out of it, rolling that, sticking a blasting cap in it, throwing it at a bomb, and then blowing that up so he didn't have to stop smoking. Dude had that look of someone who would get into a fire fight and keep eating his sandwich.
When in Afghanistan, I was in a FA unit doing RCP, baby EOD work. We had lots of the magic putty, usually kept on the bird bath of our Buffalo. This one time we were in a TIC near an unspecified city. An abandoned concrete bldg was giving us a headache, bad guy would not let us get him to his 72 virgins, even after firing an AT4 from the back of an RG, so our Combat Engineer came up with a plan. "I need a claymore, a broom and duct tape." What a weird thing for 35 guys to get excited about. He runs to the building and we hear a loud boom... He comes running out, "Got em" Apparently he stuck it through the hole and klacked the bad guy to his virgins. Now that was fun.
I remember we had our convoy in Afghanistan hit by an RPG. It was mostly a dud, just kind of slammed into the side of the truck and just hung there in the thin metal. The crew abandoned the truck and blew the baddies to hell. While the rest of the convoy circled up behind the now hot truck and Lt was requesting EOD, a few of the Air Force guys started just throwing rocks at the RPG until it fell out and then threw a tire with 550 cord tied to it over the RPG like a life preserver and drug it to the side of the road and everyone got in and hauled ass back to the FOB. Lt was all super pissed chewing them out and the Colonel was laughing but also chewing them out. The EOD guys that went out to blow up the dud RPG came back and highfived the USAF guys and they all sat down to drink a beer from their stash. edit:lol beer, beer phone. We don't drink bears. We hump them like in Super Troopers.
There was no beer. We don't acquire anything like that... it was all in your imagination. but yeah fucking crazy solution. Idk if I'd approve but I would have high fived them too.
I have a brother in law that was a commander for an EOD detachment. He mentioned to me that the bomb suite was simply the difference between an open or unopened casket funeral.
Dude. Thank you for showing love to our brothers in EOD. While it's been talked about, nothing has been actually done to elevate them to Special Forces status, which they absolutely deserve. I'm CE and they have been targeting them with daisy chains and dummy decoys to take them out. I had the privilege back at Spang to listen to one of their unredacted decs, and it's humbling to hear the shit they have to go through. Keep at it brotha. Thank you!
I would not be surprised if you have fans among the instructors and Military professors at the service academies. Your style of getting the point across and yet keeping your audience be they military or civilian entertained is top notch. I wouldn't be surprised if one day you get a invitation from a staff member or professor at one of the Academies asking you to speak on one of your favorite subjects that you have posted. You are the type of speaker that most teachers dream to become, because of your ability to keep your audience focused on what you have to say, without insulting their intelligence.
I've been told alot of people use my videos in a class room setting. to be honest tho I'm sure I'm much better sounding when I cam edit it before the world sees lol. thank you for the compliment
@@the_fat_electricianI was an instructor at EOD school in Canada I wish 1. I could hold an audience just the way you do. 2. Your material was around when I was instructing, a salute to you Sir for shining a light on EOD.
One of the reasons I joined the military. You find out some of the most unorthodox ways as your solution. Results are some of the best times of your life. I will always miss it. Another great video!!! Thanks
I was a 12F, M728 CEV crewman, training with the Canadians up North. Made it the entire exercise without a major problem and blew the transmission on the way to the trailhead. They decided they fix it at home and the mechs couldn't put it in the railcar straight m88 driver just couldn't get it right. We were all loaded except our M728 and I did not want to babysit our broken shit. We had the railroad guys leave the flatcar behind, haul off the rest of the train to a siding, come back with one Engine and we hooked up tow cables and chains and the Engine pulled the M728 onto the flatcar straighter than straight. Tied it down, then they hooked up and took it away. Yes, sometimes unconventional makes perfect sense.
My pops was an EOD. He said the most fun he had during his run was when they had 3 tons of unspent ordinance that they had to get rid of, so they strapped it all up in a pile within a large cargo plane, flew it up and over a field and pushed the mf'er out. The explosion was the biggest he'd ever seen.
We were out on the tank range at Ft Knox doing gunnery practice when we had a malfunction with the main gun ammo containers. 5 of the rounds had their casings (the casings are actually hardened propellant so they are VERY flammable) damaged and they couldn't be used. The rounds had to be *very carefully* removed from the containers and then carried out to the middle of the field and *very carefully* placed on an anti static tarp to await EOD for disposal. EOD showed up a few hours later, walked out to the damaged ammunition and poked it with a stick for a bit. Then he made sure there was enough clear space around the (200 feet or so), walked back to his Humvee, grabbed a stick and walked back out to what is now a pile of propellant. He proceeds to light the road flare and throw it onto the pile. Less than 10 seconds later the only things left were the avcaps and practice projectiles *something something that's his job, that's why you can't do it*
Used to have an EOD buddy. They were responsible for disposing of the C4 that was about to expire. They got permission from command to make hyper accurate scale models of various landmarks. Golden Gate, Hoover Dam, etc. As soon as the paint dried, they took it out to the range and “unassembled” it 💥
My old man was eod. He earned the bronze with V as a Canadian and I'll never ask what for, but damn do I love that man. He is by far the most loving, calm and terrifying man I've ever known. Between his para quals and the "funny" stories he's told me I hope I never understand his burden.
I got permission to take my wife who was a soldier at the time out on day of UXO clearance as my #2. I was hoping she would try EOD but I was woefully wrong I tossed a stick of C4 and she dropped it then she spent the rest of the time watching and helping me after the first UXO detonated 155mm He she lost interest. Later that night she asked if that's what I did evey day I said yes she said I am fucking nuts glad I never told her about IED work.
Storytime, 3rd tour, after being tasked with the mission "Do not let the last bridge fall" along a route from our camp to our AO we 1 night found ourselves in a situation that then had myself identify some asshat in black pajamas planting not only a Gym Bag full of P-4 but 3 Anti-Tank Mines with the same P-4 mashed between them. It's called a Pancake Bomb. Now, we got EOD out there and I had already engaged and destroyed 3 enemy personnel. The last of which refused to die even after I severed his hand from the rest of his body with 7.62mm because I had identified a phone. Once EOD got out there and I orientated them to the explosives I had seen they said the situation might be a little more dire than I thought because I was standing over an enemy still clinging to life somehow who had pulled the pin out of every grenade strapped to his chest. Now, you mentioned we don't let anyone disturb our EOD and that is correct except at the time I insisted on not leaving him alone (They only send a single person out at a time) so he gave me HIS EOD suit and said watch my back. Those things are heavy, hot, and irritating. But I did as I was told otherwise I couldn't stay. He put 2 blocks of C-4 on the chest as well as the bag which had to be transported away and the "Pancake" Bomb. Command (BDE Level) was not going to let that bridge fall. Orders from "shit stain 6 himself". SO 2 hours later and several wizard moves we moved to a safe distance and the SSG EOD person let me hit the button. I'm infantry, why he even asked if I wanted to press it is beyond me. Sometimes it's the worst situations that make you the giddiest. Needless to say we found 2 body parts and I'm not sure which 2 from that one enemy personnel.
The guy who gave me the suit test in Iraq was one of the EOD techs who lead the tanks into Kosovo. Lots of demining work done from a thin skinned humvee with a battalion of M1a1 Abrams behind him. He'd previously been an Atomic Artilleryman. But when they phased out that MOS, he got a choice of retraining. So of course he took EOD.
To Robert. We thank you. I thank you. I do pray you're watching over the military and giving them more ways of blowing shit up. Cheers brother. And to the Electronic dude. You keep pumping out that content. And if i do meet you in person. You get a whiskey.
Fucking whole bottle his choice my pops passed a month ago force recon marine in vietnam this videos are the way ive coped he never said shit about service other than paris island was home and vietnam was hot and sucked balls so hearing about people in this dark comedy of badass description helps me piece together how pops was back then
A picture that is seared into my memory came from a story about a Marine infantrymen who was struck by an RPG. It lodged in his thigh and failed to detonate. He was medivaced, but the triage center could not treat the wound with the RPG in it, nor could they risk it detonating in the triage center while EOD attempted to disarm it. So the triage personnel rolled his gurney down a path and around some hesco barriers. The wounded Marine lying on his gurney, RPG protruding grotesquely from his thigh. An Army EOD tech, carefully disassembling the RPG, and the medical center's head, a Naval Lieutenant Commander, standing there bareheaded less than three feet from a live anti tank warhead, continuing to treat the Marine. That is courage. That is commitment. That is dedication.
Huh. Been a long time. LCpl. Winder Perez. Through the leg and into his abdomen. And that National Guard medivac crew decided unanimously to airlift him, knowing that if the RPG detonated they all would die...
It was a fucking crazy event and one where that doc was a certified badass for what he did. The EOD tech and the doc had to work as a team to safely remove the ordinance and keep the guy alive.
Almost 20 years ago, we had semi-auto shotgun attachments for our old RONS. I think it was a mossberg. I can't recall the make, it was many moons and many more beers ago.
As a tanker there were plenty of times we didn't want to wait on EOD. In 2005 the wait could be 3 hours or more. So we would dispose of it ourselves. Usually with the coax machine gun or the commanders Ma deuce.
While at the grenade range in basic we had all the ranges go down because of defective grenades. So they had to call the EOD guys in. After a good hour an f150 rolled up with two well mustached dudes. They talked with the range masters for a minute before throwing on their ops core helmets and jpcs (whatever good those would do) grabbed some danger putty and walked out on the the ranges to place the c4. They then walked back to all of us waiting in the bunker. And I do mean casually just walked back to us like they weren't dealing with defective grenades, you know the most dangerous devices that your normal 18 who still hasn't even completed training is "trusted" with. They then looked at all us weak little freezing our asses off trainees and said "you idiots picked the wrong mos" and pressed the button on their det cord. Big boom, real big boom.
The worst range grenade call I ever went on was a 6 hour drive to camp Shelby Mississippi only to find out it was a grenade sim that hadn’t had the string pulled. My team leader at the time carried it back to the guys who called us, pulled the string and tossed, and what do you know. It went bang. Had to listen to him rant all the way back. lol.
I love this channel so far. Thank you. I missed out on my military career for a few reasons, and I get to see so much of what I would've done here. Truly, thank you.
These are an utter delight -- stumbled across one of your current vids, started checking out your other stuff -- laughed my ass off and instantly subbed - these are better than popcorn !
I got to spend some time with an EOD unit, and it was pretty awesome! They are definitely a different breed, but makes sense when you going home is a coin toss you never see and can't call.
In 1975 a cargo ship load of explosives was turned around from Vietnam and sent to Germany. It had gotten hot on that ship so was considered to unstable to use. The entire ship load was loaded on trains and shipped to Grafenwoehr. I was a Combat Engineer with a explosives designator. I blew up every thing from grenade fuses and blasting caps to 250 lbs shape charges. After 4 weeks and 1/16th of the ship, I got so sick of booms I requested KP for the last 2 weeks of deployment.
I was a combat engineer when I was in and I worked very closely with several EOD personnel. We did not screw around at all no time for that shit. LOL but when it was time to play they do know how to have fun 🤪🤣
Our EOD used 4 sticks of danger putty for an IED once. Not because it was needed, only 1 stick was, but because it was nearing expiration. These were the same guys who cleared a blast hole post-ied by kicking rocks and throwing a couple larger ones at each other. When one of our guys asked them why they kicked the rocks they replied with "It has the same result as poking around with a stick"
I was Miramar at back in the 86. We were at Defcon 2 and what appeared to be a thermos was left unattended in the parking lot. Those crazy SOBs had a blast blowing it up. No vehicles were harmed, and we all enjoyed the show. Good on them.
1972, off the coast of Vietnam. One of the projectile men in mount 51 made a mistake and rammed the port gun before the projectile had stopped bouncing. The result was that the detonator was smashed out of the projectile. The mount captain, GMG2 Gangloff, came flying off his seat, grabbed the projectile and shot put it over the side. 20 seconds later we were shooting again. (I was in the mount when that happened.) Another problem we had 2-3 times that deployment was we got a “hot gun, foul bore” which is that we had fired so many rounds in such a short time that a round stuck in the chamber could cook off. So when a round got stuck the procedure was: wait 30 seconds and try to extract the powder charge so we could put a short charge in. If we couldn’t extract the powder we started sending ammunition down to get it out of the mount. Two white phosphorus shells plus emptying the ammunition hoists. If the powder was extracted and a short charge inserted try to fire the gun electrically. If that failed wait 30 seconds, meanwhile the ammunition is being sent below as above. Then hit the firing pin with a hammer. If the gun still doesn’t fire, evacuate the forward/aft part of the ship. After30 seconds place a fire hose nozzle in the muzzle and flood the barrel. My job at this point was to train the gun so that if the shell exploded, the least damage to the ship would occur. The 2 men that inserted the nozzle would be evacuating as I trained the mount. Finally the trainer would get permission to evacuate. 1976 in San Diego, a war shot torpedo was dropped and broken into three major pieces, on board USS Samuel Gompers. (I was ~30 feet away.)
Nic - ever consider doing a piece on graves registration? My great uncle was a WW2 vet with that job. He was an “old man” at 35 when he went. He was at Normandy, Omaha Beach. He came back a changed man. Family bought him a dog to care for because he wasn’t interacting with people. Obviously PTSD. That dog brought back. His character was such he was probably the most admired man in his community when he died. I was named after him.
@@foyledsoul706 mod 4 (projectiles?) I think? It was back in 05, so it's been a minute. Made it through demo, which was an absolute blast. Nerve racking, but fun AF.
My brother was an eod tech in the Air Force for 10 years and is still in the reserves. He’s deployed several times to a bunch of places but he let me stay with him on base in Japan when he was stationed there. Hanging out with eod guys everyday was super awesome. They would always include me and joke about me being an airman too. I remember one day helping them setup a display at the military range where the whole base and different units had displays of what there purpose was. The eod guys where going to do a small explosive demonstration and they where going to use the bang stick that you mentioned (12 gauge shell placed in a pipe on a very crude stand). They almost didn’t do the demonstration because the stand was missing a bolt so that the pipe was loosely attached. I chirped up and said why don’t we take a bolt out of the one with no firing pin and one of the airmen said “ he’s the best airman here”. I was pretty proud of that moment and I was always greatful to experience being part of the team for even just a short time
The only experience I have with EOD's is watching a few episodes of the MacGyver reboot, where Mac is an EOD and Jack Dalton the gun crew aimed to protect him, now I'm disappointed Mac never ran over a bomb with a tank. But I definitely know it takes a special breed to not run away from an explosive but TO them
1984 RAF Lakenheath UK. During a exercise, someone reported a unattended briefcase next to a aircraft shelter. EOD rolls out. they go through their check list. Eyeball it. Hook up a cable winch from their armored vehicle and drag it a bit. finally they got out their opening tool. A frame with a breach for a 12 gauge shotty shell. it shoots across the latches on the brief case. POOF cassettes and the associated tapes go flying over a 20 yard area. Yeah someone left their boom box tapes outside of a A/C shelter.
I got coined by some of these dudes at Minot Air Force Base. They're coin had the saying, "initial success or complete failure" and that is the best way I can think to describe them
Had the pleasure of being a medic working at 59th Ord and the McMahon EOD Training Center at AP Hill with EOD instructors (i.e. the craziest of crazies because they out lived the rest and now teach the next gen of crazy)... They train on IED explosives they make on-site. Hurt Locker is just a movie - but holy hell
My uncle was EOD and i was around his trainees daily.Totally crazy to party with and a group with a stronger bond than any other i have met before or since.
As an 11B who's served for almost 8 years(plan on going 20-30yrs) I got to speak to an EOD Spec for the first time at a bar my 4th yr in, and I asked him, "how do you do it" his response was, "well I either clip it and it's no longer my problem or I clip it and I live to see another day".. Mind you this specific EOD Spec has gone over 6 times served 15 yrs and if I can remember correctly is still in for another 4yrs, (if its no longer his problem anymore).... literally [EOD IS A NON POG MOS TO ME]. Respect..
👏🤝👊🏻 Thank You, I’ve been waiting for you to finally do this one!!! I’d have to say you pretty much nailed it. Going from AO and crossing to EOD I give you an IYAOYAS! Thank You
Oops is funny like that. I mean we didn't die before saying it which means we are probably gonna be fine but yeah it also means things just got more anoying.
I have a buddy who was EOD in Afghanistan and he told me a story about one time they were clearing an area of UXOs (unexploded ordnance) but they only found 1 bomb though. Well they didn't want to have to do the paperwork for turning the c4 back in so they stacked all of it around this bomb. When it blew up they heard a whirring noice then the top of thier humvee got torn off by a fin that got sent in thier direction over a click away. They had worse paperwork. Cool story though
I loved my time wirking with the Marine eod guys. I once asked one if the guys how can you be so calm doing this. His response was " either im right, or suddenly its not my problem anymore."
One place I worked, my manager was in the Territorial Army (UK's National Guard). I don't know what else his unit did, but they occasionally blew stuff up. One time they had some gas cylinders to dispose of. Normally they'd just attach a small charge at the neck and blow the valve off. This time someone decided they could save explosives by putting two cylinders end to end with the charge in the hollow of the two concave bases. When they lit it off, predictably the two cylinders were launched in opposite directions. Another time, they had some cylinders and other things to dispose of that came from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. All the material was piled up into a heap and blown up. It was a flat calm day, no wind at all, and the explosion formed an almost perfect mushroom cloud. There was nothing nuclear about it, but the residents of a nearby village were a little concerned when they saw the cloud, followed by a couple of Atomic Energy vans leaving the area at speed.
An old classmate of mine who was EOD told me, while talking about "The Hurt Locker" that that suit is only the difference between an open casket and a closed one. I reckon that was under best circumstances. He was also the guy my friends and I called crazy back in HS, to which he told me the guys in his unit were to quote him "crazier than me."
EOD is certainly a different type of crazy, after all they willingly walk towards the boom if you asked 1 million people if they wanted to walk towards an active bomb or UXO you would probably hear no 1 million times but if you asked 2 million people you might hear 1 brave individual go “hold my beer” that’s EOD Everyday they are working could be their last so they live everyday like it is their last. An EOD troop doesn’t beat around the bush they run it over without a thought because they might not get a chance tomorrow. Some of the best people i know are EOD. To any EOD out there thank you for your service, keep on keeping on and i wish you the best of luck moving forward. My favorite quote from an EOD troop was “when i was deployed in the desert and we were on a convoy mission half the convoy was set to go around a *blank* (sorry i can’t remember what he said they were driving around) one to the east the other to the west and meet back up on the other side so they split the EOD personnel up between the two. The half i was on encountered a strange bag in the middle of the road 6 hours into the drive and in 120 degree heat. We called it in….. the other convoy had all the bomb suits in it so they wanted us to wait while the other half backtracked 6 hours then came around to our side driving another 6 hours to us. So i grabbed the radio said don’t bother got out the vehicle walked over to the bag and kicked it out of the road, went back to the checked called over the radio all clear. Probably not the smartest thing I’ve done but luckily it was empty. I tell you what though either way i wasn’t sitting in that 120 degree heat until nightfall sitting there waiting, i figured if it was my time to go it was my time.” You have to be a different kind of crazy to kick a suspected IED but i can’t argue with his logic either
Your welcome and Thank you because you seem like you give a sh!t and the EOD family most troops don't like us because we took forever and 3 days and to get to the suspected IED they called in which turned out to be their Lt's broken and patched up love doll he was trying to sneak away and toss in the dumpster until the wind caught it and then sh!t went downhill from that point
I actually did "The Hurt Locker job in Afghsnistan. Not an EOD I was a Grunt that served on their protection detail and yes that is pretty acurate. Unforunatly for me they are luckier than grunts. We went to leave an intersection where they just cleared an IED and right after I sugested to my squad leader in the seat next to me it might be a bad idea to drive through said intersection on our way out( I was rebuked)I droped my parking break and boom end of a promising 15 year career. The EOD Truck was like 5 feet from my front bumper but it all blew my direction and they didnt suffer a scatch.
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Do not ingest c4 aka danger putty it isn't safe... can't belive I have 2 say that
It goes down okay as long as you have a chaser.
These are the time I wish we could just let natural selection do it’s thing, but fine I GUESS it’s more responsible to tell the people not to eat the spicy play doh 🙄 😂
A video of danger putty unconventional uses and possibly recipes would be something.
But but but. Damn it
Fat guy on internet: "don't eat the pop putty"... Me: challenge accepted!
"A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody." -Schlock Mercenary
“Fuck, he's running pretty fast... OH FUCK HE’S RUNNING!”
I love that webcomic! Nice choice.
"Should the EOD be running away from the bomb"?
"no... No he shouldn't"
No shit, there I was moment…
As a kid my dad was stationed in Germany on an AF base during GW#1. Some airman decided to mail his son a new game system from Saudi Arabia: an original Nintendo Gameboy. And dad decided to make sure it worked before he sent it, so dad put the batteries in and played a few rounds to test it out.
Y’all remember what game they came with from the factory? Tetris. Y’all remember what noise a Tetris game made sitting stagnant? That’s right! Steady BEEPS!!!!
Well, it apparently turned itself in in transit and began playing by itself, and when it was in the post office on base it began beeping.
So 10yo me and my buddies felt this amazing *BOOM* heard all over base. All because the local EOD boys had an old Patton Tank as their EOD tool. They took the box, sat it on the range, drove up to it in the tank & blasted it from point blank.
@@mustangdrew4_The_Spartan what web comic?
My favorite eod quote was this. “How do you deal with the stress of diffusing bombs?” “It’s actually not that stressful. I either do it right or it’s no longer my problem.”
Hahahahahaha
most people see it as morbid, I see it as logical.
I've adapted this into my own personal life. "Either it works out or it's not really my problem anymore."
That's some military grade zen.
@@Ladco77 So it'll fall apart 80% of the time because it was made by the lowest bidder?
My dad had a friend who was an EOD tech in Vietnam, they seized a whole train full of explosives and the CO gave them 24 hours to dispose of all of it. Their solution was to dig a massive trench and dump in alternating layers of explosives and det. cord, run really far a way, and light the det. cord. The explosion blew out the windows in the hotel the CO was staying in a mile away.
Please tell me their is a report of this somewhere
@@williamcarey813 Same please. I need to print that simply to explain to anybody who ever says "solve it yourself" to me and I can give them a ballpark on how bad that idea would be.
While in Jr high or early in High School I once ACCIDENTALLY made a fuel air bomb. It was only an accident because I didn't know what a fuel air bomb WAS at the time. I placed an unlit propane torch with the valve open in one corner of the shed I was tasked with demolishing after prepping the building by sealing all the doors and windows and placing a lit candle on a bar stool in the opposite corner. The payment for the demo job was nowhere NEAR enough to cover the windows I had to replace in the house a couple hundred yards away.
@@spaceman6215 ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today!
@@spaceman6215 Any updates on this? lol
I love EOD.
Hated the wait times but, you know shit happens.
First time I ever nearly pissed myself laughing, an EOD tech took apart two stacked anti-tank mines...and he paused mid-work to take picture of his testicles on said mines.
Long freaking hours of waiting...traffic backed up at least 5 miles....and you better be alert to the "fire in the hole!!! warning! ( MSR Tampa, Irak 2005, several times a week)
We had a guy in supply attached to our fob who decided that he would stick his d*** in the mk-19 barrel because and I quote the hole in the barrel looked so inviting
My little brother is EOD.... and why do I feel like this happened about 6 years ago?
It's shit like this that makes me proud to be EOD because we are one big family of highly dysfunctional individuals with questionable morals and we have pet unicorns but the best part is blowing shit up hands down
@@dudester7876 Hell yeah!
Regardless of how our accents may differ, the “Brotherhood (and Sisters) of the Boom” are a family like no other. Mad as a cut snake and only one step short of a Psych Discharge…. but hey…. Who else will do the sh!t we do.
Stay safe and keep booming.
(Aussie ex-EOD)
On Enterprise in 96 we had to call EOD for a dropped fuse that armed itself. This SOB walks into the magazine with a cup of coffee (had to get him out of his rack for this) wearing nothing but a t-shirt, silkies and shower shoes, picked up the fuse and walked up to the hangar bay and chucked it out the aircraft elevator door into the ocean, then went back to berthing.
Lol I love it.
holy hell that's another level of no shits given
@@oldlyswansea to be fair, if you're EOD on a warship then a fuse is probably the smallest explosion you'd ever see.
Also if the fuse detonated the magazine, well that suit isn't going to do shit
Also a bomb fuze is easily made safe without all of that so I am doubting that story.
@@kennethmasters9329 calm down he was tired
Had a friend that was EOD and his favorite joke was " if you see me running you better keep up"
Haha, reminds me of a saying on the ships "If you see AEGIS or Sonar techs jumping overboard, it's best to follow"
Us Aviation Ordnancemen say the same shit!
Fuck keeping up! I’m outrunning him!
Lines up with Maxim #3: "An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks *_everybody"_*
My eod buddy gave me the t shirt.
A fun joke that describes EOD:
A police officer is securing a location with a suspicious package near the Class 6. A retired EOD tech walks up and asks what's going on.
Police: there's a possible bomb blocking the liquor store. We're waiting for our bomb squad.
EOD: well I was EOD for 20 years, can I take a look?
Police: ok just look though. Be careful
The EOD tech approached the package and looked all around it. After a minute he kicked it and jumped behind a low wall. After no explosion he stands up and tells the cop "it's clear!" And walks in to buy his booze.
He fking kicked it!.
Never stand between a vet at beer30 and said beer at 30 lesson learned funny story my wife works at a hospitle theres was a bimb threat someone thought some other person left a grenade just laying in the hospital parking lot my wife sent me a pic of the device from the third story of her building ....first off lemme say im a civilian but i loves me the military because almost every man in my family has fought a war for america wich has afforded me the ability to raise a family in pretty mutch totall peace so ive done my studdying i wish i vould post the pic but from about 150 yrds away on a iphone picture i could tell that this wasnt an explosive also my years of playing paintball as a teenager indicated to me it was a shitty tippman paint grenade wich is a bike innertube with a fold over pressurised w paint pul the pin cap loosens gits spray paint from holes i told her that she was worried because the police said it looked like a pineapple grenade due to the net that holds it together when bomb squad got there the dude walked up to it stomp popped it and told everyone to move on with their day whilst covered in red paint had the best this is why you always trust what you husband says moment after that she lost a half day of work worrying about a device that even if it were real only has maybey a 15 ft kill radius she woulda felt and heard the boom but still bee fine behind the concrete of the hospital they are sorta fortified almost like if theres a fight the hospital may be attacked and need to handle an explosion or two
@@todydn Two things, in order of importance:
1. learn what a full-stop is
2. learn what a paragraph is
@@kermit8173 two things one stop being a grammar nazi
And 2 show me where this effects my life at all i have this thing called an aplicable skill set im a master of creating shit with my hand 130k a year kind of master last i checked being an english teacher nets you about 60 k a year and thats being generous when it effect my bottom line only then does it become worth my time im perfectly ok knowing it bothers you infact im really happy it does just know theres thousands of un puncuated comments out there ive left behind hope it makes your skin crawl i hope that news feels like nails on a chalkboard to you
Youd think all the broke english teachers were online correcting people like its a side hustle to afford thier rammen
@@todydn I wouldn't trust you either because you can barely fucking type so what would you know about explosives?
Love to the EOD guys at MCAS Yuma who put my wedding band in the middle of a several thousand pound detonation. Best way to underline a divorce ever.
when I first read this I thought "oh god, those poor musicians"
Yuma sucks. I only spent a total of 4 months there. And when the weather was nice and it still sucked. Yeah felt like a divorce every time. Semper fi. Hope you and yours are happy and healthy if you are reading this!!
Congratulations on your divorce Bro!!! I hope you are getting all the sweet ass out there! This beers for you my man! Oklahoma Proud!!!
An old neighbor and family friend was a retired FBI agent and went to bomb school. He was one of the first boots on the ground after the Oklahoma City bombing.
Guy drank Crown Royal with a splash of water. He kept a Tommy Gun and a sniper in the trunk of his vintage jaguar, and somehow had an SAW in his basement, plus a lot of handguns and really badass knives. I was really little when I heard this but my older brother once said something like, “Hey Mr. Bill it’s really cool that you were an FBI agent you must’ve been great.”
One of my earliest memories is his response word for word. He sincerely grabs my brother on the shoulder, takes a breath and goes: “Michael, they don’t send their best guys to bomb school.”
😂😂😂 RIP Mr. Bill
What a legend.
The satisfying comment has been found.
My grandpa was an EOD tech, marksmanship trainer, and detective. If you ever watched the original Walking Tall, he was built like Bufford Pusser and about as no nonsense. He also had an 8th grade education, or so was claimed.
Reminds me of the conversation I had with a lieutenant when he found me sleeping on a bomb trailer loaded with 4 Mk 84's (2000 lb. bombs). "Aren't you afraid they are going to go off?" Nope, if they go off, I'll never wake up.
I guess the lieutenant didn't know how fucking safe those things are. They don't fucking randomly detonate.
Must've been a butter bar, lol.
@@turk7sr59ikr? I load those and I regularly say that you could most likely smack it with a sledgehammer and they won't go off.
@@TheGeocacheHunterThat would be because the fuse only activates when they are dropped from their rack from the aircraft, correct?
That, and the US doesn't like using unstable explosives for something like that. They prefer reliable (but strong) explosives.
Not military, so I might be wrong. Please let me know if so.
@airplanemaniacgaming7877 it's because the explosives aren't impact detonated (at least more than the forces made by smacking the ground from altitude). You are close with the fuse. There is a windmill/generator that spins while falling, making power for the fuse to function once the programmed conditions are met.
I was a Navy MP in Yokosuka Japan . One day a Postal Clerk heard a ticking sound in a parcel . We evacuated the PO and set a perimeter . The Navy EOD Det showed up . It was a wind up alarm clock being sent to a sailor on the USS Midway from his wife .
Who did they think the bomb maker was an Amish?🤣
@@trey9971 No, Wile E. Coyote. Who else?
I had to do that as a postal clerk! Super embarrassing when the package was opened and it was a friggin clock! Beats being explodified though lol
@@jrsharker23Brtter safe than sorry. You don't wanna be at the business end of a mailed pipe bomb.
That is to say, every end of it.
@@jrsharker23 When the EOD guy showed up and heard a ticking box, it probably made his day. "Phew, audible ticking. Either this is a clock, or whoever made this is so incompetent that this is going to be easy".
One of my most memorable interactions with a eod team, we were chillin in the TOC, eod was sitting on the floor tinkering with a big metal container. Somebody semi-panicked walked in and asked wtf that was.
It was an extra large coffee pot. They were trying to fix the wiring.
Considering the job is destruction of wiring I'm sure that pot never worked again and exploded
To be fair, they'd probably find a way to make that explode too lol
@@Pepto8ismol well, you gotta know how wires work before you can break em
@@MaxPower-ke5rq you've clearly never met a meth addict
My neighbor is retired EOD and when this video dropped just now I went sprinting to his house to show him. He laughed and said he had all those in Iraq minus the propane tank. He followed that with yeah F that suit. Loved it man keep up!
Edit: you got a new sub tonight from him!!
And the T-shirts showed up today, we love the feel quality!
that's awesome
I’m a retired EOD Tech. I did 21 yr, 1 month and 19 days then medically discharged for being blown up too many times. I loved the job though. Civilian life is boring after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan a total of 4 deployments. It’s hard trying to find that same rush of almost dying. Hence the motto “Initial Success or Total Failure”.
Hooah glade you survived bro. I still carry my grad coin.
Im about to get med boarded out after doing 20 yrs. I cant find anything to keep me interest. Depression is starting to really eat at my soul. Got any tips?
@@bombdoctor007 work in a fireworks factory?
@@MisterW0lfe Do I work in one or are you saying I should to help combat the inner demons? lol.
@@bombdoctor007 yup, try a fireworks factory, a mine, a demolition company (though that's more Engineer than EOD, y'all aren't that good with practical uses for explosives)
Castles over Crabs
Essayons
The only MOS where your body armor is for the convenience of your wake... Absolute badass and crazy.
Your pre-coffin onesie
Yup. Insides may be liquefied but at least the body is there
if you like the eod suit look up the army engineer mine suit its cool as hell
@@HurremDurrem FUCKIN DEAD😂💀😂💀😂💀
Thank you we are crazy
My Uncle George was EOD in Vietnam.
He never talked about his purple heart, I had to read in a news story how he chased down a fellow soldier who was on fire, bulldogged and rolled him around in the mud, putting the fire out with his bare hands.
What an amazing guy
Heard about a suicide bomber that wired his car to blow up and ran it into a Bradley. It made the car inoperable and trapped the driver (alive) inside. But the bomb didn't go off. Long story, short: The Bradley drove away and EOD came and helped the bomb blow up. Driver was not even a pink mist.
Was that in Baghdad 2004??? I heard this story before or one similar
We actually have a formula for vaporizing stuff. And yeah we aren't required to save suicide bombers it violates our mission statement.
Ain't war helll?
@@SuperRedraptorto quote Hawkeye from M.A.S.H. "War is War, and Hell is Hell, and I'd rather be in hell." _"Well why's that?"_ "There are no innocent people in hell."
EOD - The science of vague assumptions based on debatable data taken from inconclusive experiments with instruments of problematic accuracy by persons of questionable mentality.
"this RSP is untested but based on the best available data" 😂
We are wizards, yes.
So you admit it is a science.
So basically IT work but with Explosives which I can not think of any other way to liven up IT work.
@@ItsDJT0n3 add P for plenty with the RSP
My brother was EOD. Didn't make it home from Afghanistan in 2013. Those dudes are a cut above, certified badass for sure!
F in the chat
Sorry dude. There are some online communities you're welcome to join if you're not already active in them. Much respect to your brother, and your fam. I'm EOD '01-08
Sorry about your brother. Calling brave men and women like that badass is an understatement.
sorry to hear that. I hope this at least made u smile
From a retired EOD tech: I am sorry for your loss. He will be on The Wall and and always remembered. Hooyah EOD!
Another common way EOD renders explosive devices safe is by shooting it with a Barrett .50-caliber rifle. Pretty much every EOD team will have one for that purpose.
I remember one night in Iraq, our EOD team leader said he had spent that day out at the range with some of our scout platoon guys. (Our scout platoon had most, but not all, of our qualified snipers.) When I asked why, he explained that he obviously knew how to use the Barrett, load, unload, fire, etc, but really didn't know how to dial in the scope for range, wind, etc.
So in exchange for the scout platoon guys showing him how to do that, he taught them how to blow down doors with det cord. 🤣🤣🤣
Another time, we sent him and the team out to render safe a car bomb that was attached to some Iraqi VIP's vehicle. He said based off his preliminary testing, he suspected the explosive that was used was HMX, a more powerful derivative of what's in C4. He's telling me about crawling underneath this car, in the bomb suit, with this thing a foot away from his head... Said it was the second closest time he came to dying on a deployment.
Me: "Wait, that's the SECOND closest time?! What was the FIRST?!" He laughs and tells me that when he came back from R&R leave on his first deployment, as he was in-processing back in, nature called and he had to go find a port-a-john. Hadn't even drawn his weapon yet. So as he's sitting there, doing his business, the indirect fire sirens start going off-some insurgents were mortaring the FOB. He said rounds were landing pretty close to him, like 15 or 20 yards away. Luckily, the port-a-john was on some nice, soft sand, which helped absorb the explosions.
He said the entire time he was just pushing his hands against the walls and screaming "Oh please God, not like THIS!" 🤣🤣🤣
this is pretty amazing love to hear stories like this
I always loved the IV Charge. 24 year Combat Engineer
@@iandegraff3472 Damn, It's actually kinda amazing how many people almost got whacked in the blue-box over there. My first immediate supervisor was an intel guy who was deployed to leatherneck back in 2007, had a mortar round hit less than five feet away from him when he was taking a dump. Chewed through his leg and he wound up spending almost a year getting reconstructive surgery after a massive case of sepsis from blue-water splashing on an open wound. Only one of the few guys I met who received a purple heart, by far the most nonchalant story telling I've ever been told of getting one, and he served out the rest of his 20 years to retirement just fine. Turns out that the intervening layers of plastic from the multiple blue-boxes around him actually absorbed most of the blast and saved his life. Said that was the only time he'd ever had the urge to kiss a toilet covered in poorly drawn dicks in his entire life.
@@iandegraff3472 oh dear god I’m dying over here. I just gave myself a cramp in my side. Holy fuck that hurts.
A video of nothing but unconventional solutions to problems dealt by everyone in the military would be a brilliant collage of crazy.
Oh dear sweet mother of invention, this would be beautiful pure chaos.
Hopefully that'll be the last video of the year
I can only imagination the carefully calculated insanity
@@mitchellthompson3025 That careful calculation is the difference between grunts' "field expedient problem solving" and some random idiot trying for a Darwin Award.
@@mitchellthompson3025 carefully calculated? Wth most of that would be hold my beer an watch this sh1t.
I would not want to fight an EOD.
Those folks don't fear death and they probably don't fear God or fate, they certainly aren't going to be afraid of me.
Dad watched the movie "Blown Away" with his brother, who was an EOD in Vietnam.
I asked Dad if he got an earful of he "Yeah, right" chorus...uh-huh.
It's not about lack of fear It's more of a "it won't be my problem if shit went wrong" but yeah I personally don't fear death and really enjoyed that job.
Can confirm. My dad was EOD and would regularly come back from deployments with stories. Most memorable was him almost being thrown into a lake hog-tied, and in the process he bit a chunk out of one guys leg before they could even try to throw him in.
Bombs are gonna do what they're gonna do. People are adaptive, less predictable, and more dangerous. As an EOD guy, I'd much rather work on a bomb than fight someone. It sounds nuts, but once you learn how ordnance works, what the hazards are, and how to mitigate them, EOD is not as crazy as it seems from the outside.
@@willerwin3201it's great when working with straight munitions that's all fun and games but when IEDs are put into play that's when EOD shine.
As an EOD tech, I support this message.
Was up buddy.
Thanks for your enormous ball SerVICE news
Sore = sir
I worked with and became friends with a former Air Force EOD guy in the oil field. He was the squirrellyst som bitch I think I ever knew. I used to bring him monsters and watch him spin off to the fifth dimension. Solid, solid dude.
Btw, I think you should review MREs.
There have been multiple times when i was in Iraq in 2004 where our battalion of Combat Engineers went out with EOD to provide security, blown up ordinance or just haul the IED back to base because the EOD tech wants to see how it works. Mind you this was in Mosul, Iraq 2004. Don't forget Combat Engineers do route clearance because the EOD has too much of a workload on their plate whenever we get in country. There were bounties on the heads of Special Forces, EOD and Combat Engineers back then. Fun times right????
Can't envision them doing anything but laughing at having a bounty on them. The fact that failure ends with them being alive would be upside.
@@gmat5046 Literally that's what happened
Crabs over castles baby. But seriously I appreciate yall too. We had to do route clearance missions in 09-10 and it fucking sucks. But yeah I'll make jokes on yall all the time but we do appreciate what yall do.
@@gmat5046 trust and believe that’s pretty much what the EOD, Combat Engineers and Special Forces did when we heard this news. No matter what the job still has to get done
I lost a good friend of mine in Iraq in 06. I was a Tanker on one of the worst roads in Iraq for IEDs at the time. We had that many IEDs per day, our EOD gave up going in calls and just instructed us to have a good stand off distance and launch .50 cal round at it till it went boom or was determined to not be anything. My tank was the CSAMM tank(think 70 ton sniper) and we, I'm, dispatched, quiet a few giant bang suppositorys in the year I was there. EOD would come out if something just didn't feel right and bring their RC car and water charges and make it feel right. After that RC car was blown up enough times, rather then fix it, they'd get a new one. Well,I seen them getting ready huck one in the burn pit one time and asked if I could have it, to which I got a response of "fucking junk but it's yours if you want it". Absolutely I did. Packed it in a foot locker and still have it to this day(one day I might even fix the damn thing lol) EOD Tech, Gunny Boatman RIP Brother.
RIP Gunny.
I would highly recommend a book called "Braver Men Walk Away" by Peter Gurney. The journey of a young Englishman from Army ammunition examiner clearing up weapons caches in Postwar Germany to Chief EOD for the Metropolitan Police in London. It was an interesting life
The only profession where you never hear “whoops” cus if you hear eod say whoops then you are about to be out in the forever box with a shovel😂😂😂
No, unfortunately you never hear woops from active EOD.
I’m an ICU nurse and your videos help me with me deal with all the craziness that has been happening in the world, and work. Thank you 🥰
happy 2 help
Thank you for being a nurse. Luckily I never needed your services in country, but I was always glad to know you were there.
I feel like if the EOD is working then even the officers near by will come up with new ideas Geneva never thought of and will cover the cost of what they used to put you in the forever box. Or blame it on the grunts.
Served with a former EOD tech in the air force, one of the darkest dudes I knew. We where lineman and both on the same pole one day and I gaffed out, just as my brain was starting to think "On shit, I'm going to break something", he caught my arm and said "I got you bro" . His name was Brown, I don't think I'll ever forget him saving my ass.
I meant calmest dudes I knew, sorry.
@@cavemanjoe79 Darkest is probably also right...I picked out my magic legs before I deployed to Afghanistan in 2011...
When I was in the Army, I knew an old EOD dude. He told me about taking a claymore mine, popping it open with his knife, pulling the C4 out of it, rolling that, sticking a blasting cap in it, throwing it at a bomb, and then blowing that up so he didn't have to stop smoking. Dude had that look of someone who would get into a fire fight and keep eating his sandwich.
I'm dying. This comment section is the best
I have a really good friend that was EOD and then taught at Eglin AFB. This was spot on!
When in Afghanistan, I was in a FA unit doing RCP, baby EOD work. We had lots of the magic putty, usually kept on the bird bath of our Buffalo. This one time we were in a TIC near an unspecified city. An abandoned concrete bldg was giving us a headache, bad guy would not let us get him to his 72 virgins, even after firing an AT4 from the back of an RG, so our Combat Engineer came up with a plan. "I need a claymore, a broom and duct tape." What a weird thing for 35 guys to get excited about. He runs to the building and we hear a loud boom... He comes running out, "Got em" Apparently he stuck it through the hole and klacked the bad guy to his virgins. Now that was fun.
I remember we had our convoy in Afghanistan hit by an RPG. It was mostly a dud, just kind of slammed into the side of the truck and just hung there in the thin metal.
The crew abandoned the truck and blew the baddies to hell.
While the rest of the convoy circled up behind the now hot truck and Lt was requesting EOD, a few of the Air Force guys started just throwing rocks at the RPG until it fell out and then threw a tire with 550 cord tied to it over the RPG like a life preserver and drug it to the side of the road and everyone got in and hauled ass back to the FOB.
Lt was all super pissed chewing them out and the Colonel was laughing but also chewing them out.
The EOD guys that went out to blow up the dud RPG came back and highfived the USAF guys and they all sat down to drink a beer from their stash.
edit:lol beer, beer phone. We don't drink bears. We hump them like in Super Troopers.
There was no beer. We don't acquire anything like that... it was all in your imagination. but yeah fucking crazy solution. Idk if I'd approve but I would have high fived them too.
Game recognize game. 😂
I have a brother in law that was a commander for an EOD detachment. He mentioned to me that the bomb suite was simply the difference between an open or unopened casket funeral.
Basically yeah that's about it. It does work but there are limits. I don't miss my bomb suite but I do miss my talon robot.
EOD saved my ass more than once. I may be doc but I can assure you when eod showed up his life meant more 😂
Rest easy to the EOD tech at the end. We'll take it from here.
Until Valhalla
Dude. Thank you for showing love to our brothers in EOD. While it's been talked about, nothing has been actually done to elevate them to Special Forces status, which they absolutely deserve. I'm CE and they have been targeting them with daisy chains and dummy decoys to take them out. I had the privilege back at Spang to listen to one of their unredacted decs, and it's humbling to hear the shit they have to go through. Keep at it brotha. Thank you!
We are also technically a non combat mos that goes into combat. It's kinda weird how we get classified.
They either get the job done or suddenly it's not their problem anymore....
I would not be surprised if you have fans among the instructors and Military professors at the service academies. Your style of getting the point across and yet keeping your audience be they military or civilian entertained is top notch. I wouldn't be surprised if one day you get a invitation from a staff member or professor at one of the Academies asking you to speak on one of your favorite subjects that you have posted. You are the type of speaker that most teachers dream to become, because of your ability to keep your audience focused on what you have to say, without insulting their intelligence.
I've been told alot of people use my videos in a class room setting. to be honest tho I'm sure I'm much better sounding when I cam edit it before the world sees lol. thank you for the compliment
@@the_fat_electricianI was an instructor at EOD school in Canada I wish 1. I could hold an audience just the way you do. 2. Your material was around when I was instructing, a salute to you Sir for shining a light on EOD.
One of the reasons I joined the military. You find out some of the most unorthodox ways as your solution. Results are some of the best times of your life. I will always miss it. Another great video!!! Thanks
I was a 12F, M728 CEV crewman, training with the Canadians up North. Made it the entire exercise without a major problem and blew the transmission on the way to the trailhead. They decided they fix it at home and the mechs couldn't put it in the railcar straight m88 driver just couldn't get it right. We were all loaded except our M728 and I did not want to babysit our broken shit. We had the railroad guys leave the flatcar behind, haul off the rest of the train to a siding, come back with one Engine and we hooked up tow cables and chains and the Engine pulled the M728 onto the flatcar straighter than straight. Tied it down, then they hooked up and took it away. Yes, sometimes unconventional makes perfect sense.
My pops was an EOD. He said the most fun he had during his run was when they had 3 tons of unspent ordinance that they had to get rid of, so they strapped it all up in a pile within a large cargo plane, flew it up and over a field and pushed the mf'er out. The explosion was the biggest he'd ever seen.
We were out on the tank range at Ft Knox doing gunnery practice when we had a malfunction with the main gun ammo containers. 5 of the rounds had their casings (the casings are actually hardened propellant so they are VERY flammable) damaged and they couldn't be used. The rounds had to be *very carefully* removed from the containers and then carried out to the middle of the field and *very carefully* placed on an anti static tarp to await EOD for disposal.
EOD showed up a few hours later, walked out to the damaged ammunition and poked it with a stick for a bit. Then he made sure there was enough clear space around the (200 feet or so), walked back to his Humvee, grabbed a stick and walked back out to what is now a pile of propellant. He proceeds to light the road flare and throw it onto the pile. Less than 10 seconds later the only things left were the avcaps and practice projectiles *something something that's his job, that's why you can't do it*
Thanks for following procedure. We really appreciate that.
Used to have an EOD buddy. They were responsible for disposing of the C4 that was about to expire. They got permission from command to make hyper accurate scale models of various landmarks. Golden Gate, Hoover Dam, etc. As soon as the paint dried, they took it out to the range and “unassembled” it 💥
My old man was eod. He earned the bronze with V as a Canadian and I'll never ask what for, but damn do I love that man. He is by far the most loving, calm and terrifying man I've ever known. Between his para quals and the "funny" stories he's told me I hope I never understand his burden.
Now he would CSOR serious operators.
My wife was one of the first 10 enlisted women to became a EOD member. Love it .
This should have a lot more up votes
I got permission to take my wife who was a soldier at the time out on day of UXO clearance as my #2. I was hoping she would try EOD but I was woefully wrong I tossed a stick of C4 and she dropped it then she spent the rest of the time watching and helping me after the first UXO detonated 155mm He she lost interest. Later that night she asked if that's what I did evey day I said yes she said I am fucking nuts glad I never told her about IED work.
Storytime, 3rd tour, after being tasked with the mission "Do not let the last bridge fall" along a route from our camp to our AO we 1 night found ourselves in a situation that then had myself identify some asshat in black pajamas planting not only a Gym Bag full of P-4 but 3 Anti-Tank Mines with the same P-4 mashed between them. It's called a Pancake Bomb. Now, we got EOD out there and I had already engaged and destroyed 3 enemy personnel. The last of which refused to die even after I severed his hand from the rest of his body with 7.62mm because I had identified a phone. Once EOD got out there and I orientated them to the explosives I had seen they said the situation might be a little more dire than I thought because I was standing over an enemy still clinging to life somehow who had pulled the pin out of every grenade strapped to his chest. Now, you mentioned we don't let anyone disturb our EOD and that is correct except at the time I insisted on not leaving him alone (They only send a single person out at a time) so he gave me HIS EOD suit and said watch my back. Those things are heavy, hot, and irritating. But I did as I was told otherwise I couldn't stay. He put 2 blocks of C-4 on the chest as well as the bag which had to be transported away and the "Pancake" Bomb. Command (BDE Level) was not going to let that bridge fall. Orders from "shit stain 6 himself". SO 2 hours later and several wizard moves we moved to a safe distance and the SSG EOD person let me hit the button. I'm infantry, why he even asked if I wanted to press it is beyond me. Sometimes it's the worst situations that make you the giddiest. Needless to say we found 2 body parts and I'm not sure which 2 from that one enemy personnel.
Fucking awesome work and thanks for keeping a battle buddy safe.
We loved our EOD team. They did all sorts of cool stuff and let us play.
Also, the suit test for EOD is no fucking joke.
The guy who gave me the suit test in Iraq was one of the EOD techs who lead the tanks into Kosovo. Lots of demining work done from a thin skinned humvee with a battalion of M1a1 Abrams behind him. He'd previously been an Atomic Artilleryman. But when they phased out that MOS, he got a choice of retraining. So of course he took EOD.
I both loved and hated that test. It sucks doing it but I did enjoy proctoring for it.
Did he give you the “blast test”? Lol
To Robert. We thank you. I thank you. I do pray you're watching over the military and giving them more ways of blowing shit up. Cheers brother. And to the Electronic dude. You keep pumping out that content. And if i do meet you in person. You get a whiskey.
Fucking whole bottle his choice my pops passed a month ago force recon marine in vietnam this videos are the way ive coped he never said shit about service other than paris island was home and vietnam was hot and sucked balls so hearing about people in this dark comedy of badass description helps me piece together how pops was back then
A picture that is seared into my memory came from a story about a Marine infantrymen who was struck by an RPG. It lodged in his thigh and failed to detonate. He was medivaced, but the triage center could not treat the wound with the RPG in it, nor could they risk it detonating in the triage center while EOD attempted to disarm it. So the triage personnel rolled his gurney down a path and around some hesco barriers. The wounded Marine lying on his gurney, RPG protruding grotesquely from his thigh. An Army EOD tech, carefully disassembling the RPG, and the medical center's head, a Naval Lieutenant Commander, standing there bareheaded less than three feet from a live anti tank warhead, continuing to treat the Marine.
That is courage. That is commitment. That is dedication.
Huh. Been a long time. LCpl. Winder Perez. Through the leg and into his abdomen. And that National Guard medivac crew decided unanimously to airlift him, knowing that if the RPG detonated they all would die...
It was a fucking crazy event and one where that doc was a certified badass for what he did. The EOD tech and the doc had to work as a team to safely remove the ordinance and keep the guy alive.
the bit about the eating the c4 putty and then chasing him with a taser had me busting up laughing. haven't laughed that hard in a while
"shoot it with a 12g shotgun"
Wait, is that what those HE slugs were originally meant for?
maybe? good ques
No. But the tool being referenced does use 12 guage shells
it's called a PAN, it's a metal tube that you put a special shotgun shell in and fire remotely, usually with shock tube
Almost 20 years ago, we had semi-auto shotgun attachments for our old RONS. I think it was a mossberg. I can't recall the make, it was many moons and many more beers ago.
If you are talking about the white phosphorus "dragons breath" rounds no. They were meant to light organic material on fire.
EODs. The job where body protection is more an annoyance than a utility.
As a tanker there were plenty of times we didn't want to wait on EOD. In 2005 the wait could be 3 hours or more. So we would dispose of it ourselves. Usually with the coax machine gun or the commanders Ma deuce.
Kinda nervous yall did that but yall did have a tank so I guess it works.
@@turk7sr59you must have been danger close before ?
EOD was the only people that out drank the crew chiefs.
Which is scary.
EOD - Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EOD - Everyone Ones Drunk
Yeah, NEVER try to outdrink those guys.
We aren't all that bad. Wait nvm I just remembered some shit.
@@turk7sr59shared gas tight suits after a good British pissup. God the stink would either get you drunk or make you puke
My uncle was EOD. I asked him if he ever got nervous and he said," no, you're either right, or it isn't your problem anymore"
Minor note, c4 isn't detonated with electricity directly, but by an electrically-primed blasting cap
While at the grenade range in basic we had all the ranges go down because of defective grenades. So they had to call the EOD guys in. After a good hour an f150 rolled up with two well mustached dudes. They talked with the range masters for a minute before throwing on their ops core helmets and jpcs (whatever good those would do) grabbed some danger putty and walked out on the the ranges to place the c4. They then walked back to all of us waiting in the bunker. And I do mean casually just walked back to us like they weren't dealing with defective grenades, you know the most dangerous devices that your normal 18 who still hasn't even completed training is "trusted" with. They then looked at all us weak little freezing our asses off trainees and said "you idiots picked the wrong mos" and pressed the button on their det cord. Big boom, real big boom.
Lol yeah grenade range calls are very common.
The worst range grenade call I ever went on was a 6 hour drive to camp Shelby Mississippi only to find out it was a grenade sim that hadn’t had the string pulled. My team leader at the time carried it back to the guys who called us, pulled the string and tossed, and what do you know. It went bang. Had to listen to him rant all the way back. lol.
Had a buddy in EOD. Had a t-shirt made up that read "If you see me running, try to keep up"😎
I love this channel so far. Thank you. I missed out on my military career for a few reasons, and I get to see so much of what I would've done here. Truly, thank you.
When asked how an eod tech is so calm when working he simply says "either I'm right or its suddenly not my problem"
These are an utter delight -- stumbled across one of your current vids, started checking out your other stuff -- laughed my ass off and instantly subbed - these are better than popcorn !
I got to spend some time with an EOD unit, and it was pretty awesome! They are definitely a different breed, but makes sense when you going home is a coin toss you never see and can't call.
In 1975 a cargo ship load of explosives was turned around from Vietnam and sent to Germany. It had gotten hot on that ship so was considered to unstable to use. The entire ship load was loaded on trains and shipped to Grafenwoehr. I was a Combat Engineer with a explosives designator. I blew up every thing from grenade fuses and blasting caps to 250 lbs shape charges. After 4 weeks and 1/16th of the ship, I got so sick of booms I requested KP for the last 2 weeks of deployment.
I was a combat engineer when I was in and I worked very closely with several EOD personnel. We did not screw around at all no time for that shit. LOL but when it was time to play they do know how to have fun 🤪🤣
Crabs over castles! And thanks for having our backs. I can't even begin to count the amount of times combat engineers pulled security for us.
Our EOD used 4 sticks of danger putty for an IED once. Not because it was needed, only 1 stick was, but because it was nearing expiration. These were the same guys who cleared a blast hole post-ied by kicking rocks and throwing a couple larger ones at each other. When one of our guys asked them why they kicked the rocks they replied with "It has the same result as poking around with a stick"
YES! an EOD video. You are awesome and love your videos. As a former US Army EOD tech I laughed my ass off.
Great video as always brother!
Rest easy Robert Landers.
My cousin is EOD and he has some of the best war stories. Man is 6'6, 300lbs of anger. He could just tank the explosion if he wanted.
Sounds like my team leader except he was 6'2" and 250.
I was Miramar at back in the 86. We were at Defcon 2 and what appeared to be a thermos was left unattended in the parking lot. Those crazy SOBs had a blast blowing it up. No vehicles were harmed, and we all enjoyed the show. Good on them.
Thank you for your service Robert
1972, off the coast of Vietnam. One of the projectile men in mount 51 made a mistake and rammed the port gun before the projectile had stopped bouncing. The result was that the detonator was smashed out of the projectile. The mount captain, GMG2 Gangloff, came flying off his seat, grabbed the projectile and shot put it over the side.
20 seconds later we were shooting again. (I was in the mount when that happened.)
Another problem we had 2-3 times that deployment was we got a “hot gun, foul bore” which is that we had fired so many rounds in such a short time that a round stuck in the chamber could cook off.
So when a round got stuck the procedure was: wait 30 seconds and try to extract the powder charge so we could put a short charge in. If we couldn’t extract the powder we started sending ammunition down to get it out of the mount. Two white phosphorus shells plus emptying the ammunition hoists.
If the powder was extracted and a short charge inserted try to fire the gun electrically. If that failed wait 30 seconds, meanwhile the ammunition is being sent below as above. Then hit the firing pin with a hammer. If the gun still doesn’t fire, evacuate the forward/aft part of the ship.
After30 seconds place a fire hose nozzle in the muzzle and flood the barrel. My job at this point was to train the gun so that if the shell exploded, the least damage to the ship would occur. The 2 men that inserted the nozzle would be evacuating as I trained the mount.
Finally the trainer would get permission to evacuate.
1976 in San Diego, a war shot torpedo was dropped and broken into three major pieces, on board USS Samuel Gompers. (I was ~30 feet away.)
Awesome videos. Just binged everything on your channel, needed the laugh today and you definitely had me rolling.
good 2 hear thank you
Nic - ever consider doing a piece on graves registration? My great uncle was a WW2 vet with that job. He was an “old man” at 35 when he went. He was at Normandy, Omaha Beach. He came back a changed man. Family bought him a dog to care for because he wasn’t interacting with people. Obviously PTSD. That dog brought back. His character was such he was probably the most admired man in his community when he died. I was named after him.
Failed out of EOD unfortunately, but damnit was it fun.
Went and became a firefighter, so crazy and fun on a different level.
Shit bruh what mod did you fail out in?
@@foyledsoul706 mod 4 (projectiles?) I think? It was back in 05, so it's been a minute.
Made it through demo, which was an absolute blast. Nerve racking, but fun AF.
My brother was an eod tech in the Air Force for 10 years and is still in the reserves. He’s deployed several times to a bunch of places but he let me stay with him on base in Japan when he was stationed there. Hanging out with eod guys everyday was super awesome. They would always include me and joke about me being an airman too. I remember one day helping them setup a display at the military range where the whole base and different units had displays of what there purpose was. The eod guys where going to do a small explosive demonstration and they where going to use the bang stick that you mentioned (12 gauge shell placed in a pipe on a very crude stand). They almost didn’t do the demonstration because the stand was missing a bolt so that the pipe was loosely attached. I chirped up and said why don’t we take a bolt out of the one with no firing pin and one of the airmen said “ he’s the best airman here”. I was pretty proud of that moment and I was always greatful to experience being part of the team for even just a short time
The only experience I have with EOD's is watching a few episodes of the MacGyver reboot, where Mac is an EOD and Jack Dalton the gun crew aimed to protect him, now I'm disappointed Mac never ran over a bomb with a tank. But I definitely know it takes a special breed to not run away from an explosive but TO them
Just signed my EOD contract this week. AF. 8 month school ahead of me. Lets get it
8 months if you manage to not roll back. Keep focused, study hard, and think critically. You got this man.
Woot another to join the ranks. Best advice I can give is to use fucking study hall time for studying.
And stop by the matador when you get a chance.
When i was in the Army, we had a saying...
If the EOD tech is running, stay ahead of him.
1984 RAF Lakenheath UK. During a exercise, someone reported a unattended briefcase next to a aircraft shelter. EOD rolls out. they go through their check list. Eyeball it. Hook up a cable winch from their armored vehicle and drag it a bit. finally they got out their opening tool. A frame with a breach for a 12 gauge shotty shell. it shoots across the latches on the brief case. POOF cassettes and the associated tapes go flying over a 20 yard area. Yeah someone left their boom box tapes outside of a A/C shelter.
My solution to every IED I ran, “get me a 55 gallon drum of Vaseline, a naked midget and a feather duster”. Problem solved.
I got coined by some of these dudes at Minot Air Force Base. They're coin had the saying, "initial success or complete failure" and that is the best way I can think to describe them
Had the pleasure of being a medic working at 59th Ord and the McMahon EOD Training Center at AP Hill with EOD instructors (i.e. the craziest of crazies because they out lived the rest and now teach the next gen of crazy)... They train on IED explosives they make on-site.
Hurt Locker is just a movie - but holy hell
Yeah training is crazy fun. We make things harder in training so we survive in the field.
@@turk7sr59got to be crazier (sicker) than the builders that way you stay haveing Fun in the Sun
My uncle was EOD and i was around his trainees daily.Totally crazy to party with and a group with a stronger bond than any other i have met before or since.
An EOD tech at full sprint out-ranks everybody
100% of the time lol
As an 11B who's served for almost 8 years(plan on going 20-30yrs) I got to speak to an EOD Spec for the first time at a bar my 4th yr in, and I asked him, "how do you do it" his response was, "well I either clip it and it's no longer my problem or I clip it and I live to see another day".. Mind you this specific EOD Spec has gone over 6 times served 15 yrs and if I can remember correctly is still in for another 4yrs, (if its no longer his problem anymore).... literally [EOD IS A NON POG MOS TO ME]. Respect..
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Thank You, I’ve been waiting for you to finally do this one!!! I’d have to say you pretty much nailed it. Going from AO and crossing to EOD I give you an IYAOYAS!
Thank You
thank you means alot hearing people that do the job telling me I nailed it
Yeah I fucking loved his vid on us too. So glade to see us on here.
Scariest thing you'll ever hear: an EOD tech saying "oops"
idk them passing u at a dead sprint might be worse
Oops is funny like that. I mean we didn't die before saying it which means we are probably gonna be fine but yeah it also means things just got more anoying.
I have a buddy who was EOD in Afghanistan and he told me a story about one time they were clearing an area of UXOs (unexploded ordnance) but they only found 1 bomb though. Well they didn't want to have to do the paperwork for turning the c4 back in so they stacked all of it around this bomb. When it blew up they heard a whirring noice then the top of thier humvee got torn off by a fin that got sent in thier direction over a click away. They had worse paperwork. Cool story though
I fucking hated when that shit happens. Shrapnel always comes at us no matter how carefully we plan a det.
Juggy suits are also pretty good at stopping bullets, at least for the first few seconds or so. And that can make all the difference, honestly.
Fucking true! My dad was Army EOD and now I’m currently training to be a 68 Whiskey. I fucking love these videos! Yes I’ve seen the one on Doc too.
I loved my time wirking with the Marine eod guys. I once asked one if the guys how can you be so calm doing this. His response was " either im right, or suddenly its not my problem anymore."
While I was a Weasel Keeper in my time in the Air Force (look it up), my older brother was EOD for 26 years. Huge set of balls
One place I worked, my manager was in the Territorial Army (UK's National Guard). I don't know what else his unit did, but they occasionally blew stuff up. One time they had some gas cylinders to dispose of. Normally they'd just attach a small charge at the neck and blow the valve off. This time someone decided they could save explosives by putting two cylinders end to end with the charge in the hollow of the two concave bases. When they lit it off, predictably the two cylinders were launched in opposite directions.
Another time, they had some cylinders and other things to dispose of that came from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. All the material was piled up into a heap and blown up. It was a flat calm day, no wind at all, and the explosion formed an almost perfect mushroom cloud. There was nothing nuclear about it, but the residents of a nearby village were a little concerned when they saw the cloud, followed by a couple of Atomic Energy vans leaving the area at speed.
The only people that can make you wait 14 hours and you don’t complain about it. lol
Oof now I wanna know why it took 14 hours. We usually respond quick as we can.
@@turk7sr59I did a UXO call that took me 2 days to get there 1 day for item marker location Marine 2 days back to base nice week-long trip
An old classmate of mine who was EOD told me, while talking about "The Hurt Locker" that that suit is only the difference between an open casket and a closed one. I reckon that was under best circumstances. He was also the guy my friends and I called crazy back in HS, to which he told me the guys in his unit were to quote him "crazier than me."
EOD is certainly a different type of crazy, after all they willingly walk towards the boom if you asked 1 million people if they wanted to walk towards an active bomb or UXO you would probably hear no 1 million times but if you asked 2 million people you might hear 1 brave individual go “hold my beer” that’s EOD
Everyday they are working could be their last so they live everyday like it is their last. An EOD troop doesn’t beat around the bush they run it over without a thought because they might not get a chance tomorrow. Some of the best people i know are EOD. To any EOD out there thank you for your service, keep on keeping on and i wish you the best of luck moving forward.
My favorite quote from an EOD troop was “when i was deployed in the desert and we were on a convoy mission half the convoy was set to go around a *blank* (sorry i can’t remember what he said they were driving around) one to the east the other to the west and meet back up on the other side so they split the EOD personnel up between the two. The half i was on encountered a strange bag in the middle of the road 6 hours into the drive and in 120 degree heat. We called it in….. the other convoy had all the bomb suits in it so they wanted us to wait while the other half backtracked 6 hours then came around to our side driving another 6 hours to us. So i grabbed the radio said don’t bother got out the vehicle walked over to the bag and kicked it out of the road, went back to the checked called over the radio all clear. Probably not the smartest thing I’ve done but luckily it was empty. I tell you what though either way i wasn’t sitting in that 120 degree heat until nightfall sitting there waiting, i figured if it was my time to go it was my time.”
You have to be a different kind of crazy to kick a suspected IED but i can’t argue with his logic either
Your welcome and Thank you because you seem like you give a sh!t and the EOD family most troops don't like us because we took forever and 3 days and to get to the suspected IED they called in which turned out to be their Lt's broken and patched up love doll he was trying to sneak away and toss in the dumpster until the wind caught it and then sh!t went downhill from that point
Some ppl built different. Also thanks for not name dropping. Also thanks for guarding us. We roll around in small teams and need security.
I actually did "The Hurt Locker job in Afghsnistan. Not an EOD I was a Grunt that served on their protection detail and yes that is pretty acurate. Unforunatly for me they are luckier than grunts. We went to leave an intersection where they just cleared an IED and right after I sugested to my squad leader in the seat next to me it might be a bad idea to drive through said intersection on our way out( I was rebuked)I droped my parking break and boom end of a promising 15 year career. The EOD Truck was like 5 feet from my front bumper but it all blew my direction and they didnt suffer a scatch.