09-07-2006, 02:21 PM
Out of the top 10 dangerous jobs, I have held 4 of them, plus military and law enforcement. No wonder I now walk with a cane!
Hmm, you don't know the same EOD (explosive ordenance disposal) guys that I do. After the action, there are a lot of laughing and jokes, sometimes in the middle of it, and usually before it as well, especially if someone does something stupid, like the time we had to spend 15 minutes looking for a guy's thumb, while laughing hilariously.....
In Iraq, one of our guys was going to 'the bathroom', and a sniper started shooting at him, and he couldn't stop what he was doing, (not conveniently); and the other troops were all laughing and yelling at him, so that it took a few minutes to get everyone actually looking for the sniper, and stopping the sniper. Then we made jokes about the poor soldier who had been hit in 'the bottom' with bits of fragments from a near miss which also took the heel off from his boot. (Of course, then we had to prevent the 'wounded' soldier from going out and mutilating the enemy body.... but, and I repeat BUTT :twisted: , the guy did get a "Purple Heart" for combat injuries caused by an enemy action..... (even if the exact circumstances were not fully reported..)
hock: :lol: :roll:
Quote:But the different is, that not one pioneer would throw himself to the ground, laughing in a camera and talkin about a "beautiful example of a mine, detonating already by vibration, and look how deep it is in..." Cause the danger would be to high.
Hmm, you don't know the same EOD (explosive ordenance disposal) guys that I do. After the action, there are a lot of laughing and jokes, sometimes in the middle of it, and usually before it as well, especially if someone does something stupid, like the time we had to spend 15 minutes looking for a guy's thumb, while laughing hilariously.....
In Iraq, one of our guys was going to 'the bathroom', and a sniper started shooting at him, and he couldn't stop what he was doing, (not conveniently); and the other troops were all laughing and yelling at him, so that it took a few minutes to get everyone actually looking for the sniper, and stopping the sniper. Then we made jokes about the poor soldier who had been hit in 'the bottom' with bits of fragments from a near miss which also took the heel off from his boot. (Of course, then we had to prevent the 'wounded' soldier from going out and mutilating the enemy body.... but, and I repeat BUTT :twisted: , the guy did get a "Purple Heart" for combat injuries caused by an enemy action..... (even if the exact circumstances were not fully reported..)
hock: :lol: :roll:
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