EOD pede here. Air Force. The Army didn’t have as many EOD techs as us so we had a huge presence in country. My time was spent wearing NOMEX ACUs with the 3/8 CAV, 82nd Airborne, and 10th Mountain at FOBS or in Baghdad (Paliwada, McHenry mainly). Many Air Force EOD guys saw combat and earned our Spurs and Arcams/Afcams.
I understand what it means to fire my weapon in anger, and then scrap up the bodies from IEDs during too many post blasts. I found my way to the bottom of a bottle after my first deployment. Went back to God during my second and have been blessed ever since. I still have problems, but I’m not drinking them away anymore. God bless my EOD brothers and my fellow vets.
EOD pede here. Air Force. The Army didn’t have as many EOD techs as us so we had a huge presence in country. My time was spent wearing NOMEX ACUs with the 3/8 CAV, 82nd Airborne, and 10th Mountain at FOBS or in Baghdad (Paliwada, McHenry mainly). Many Air Force EOD guys saw combat and earned our Spurs and Arcams/Afcams.
I understand what it means to fire my weapon in anger, and then scrap up the bodies from IEDs during too many post blasts. I found my way to the bottom of a bottle after my first deployment. Went back to God during my second and have been blessed ever since. I still have problems, but I’m not drinking them away anymore. God bless my EOD brothers and my fellow vets.