Is EOD a POG job? And how stimulating is it?

I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat...
I'm on Tampa; 30 miles out past Scania, and I've been pulling security waiting for EOD to arrive on station for the last 10 years. War is hell...

No but seriously, the last time I worked with EOD, one of their guys dared another to kiss me on the lips without me knowing. Another guy stole a pair of shorts from my dresser at a house party. A bunch of closeted fags, the bunch...

>No but seriously, the last time I worked with EOD, one of their guys dared another to kiss me on the lips without me knowing. Another guy stole a pair of shorts from my dresser at a house party. A bunch of closeted fags, the bunch...
USMC EOD... yep

I wrangled a fair few of them in my squadron on my last tour of Iraq, basically they're all fucked in the head. Mostly because they were a mix of navy divers, army munitions specialists and anyone else stupid enough to get into the job.
Funnily enough, none of them died, they got shot at a lot and somehow I always seemed to end up in a screaming argument with people complaining about them being late to a site.
>"Well just drive over the cunt and stop complaining to me about being late"

Jeremy Renner seems pretty cool

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It is literally NOT fucking "person other than grunt." It's fucking pogue, and the word has been around for a long ass time before we changed it to mean what it does now.

Shut up, POG.

I bet you pronounce it like those fucking cardboard chips you played with as a kid too you fucking ignoramus

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You think this is a fucking joke? Start pushing. Push until I'm fucking tired.

youtube.com/watch?v=cQpBx1Nz8uk

Seems legit.

I like how they're actually using accurate military callsigns. Even the seemingly exhaustive attempts at authenticity in cinema get that wrong. For those who haven't been in the military and might not know what I'm talking about, take this example:
>Charlie 4-2 alpha
This means Charlie company, fourth platoon, second squad, alpha fireteam leader. I don't know about the British military, but some other ones:
>4-6
Fourth platoon PL, might also sometimes be called 4-6 actual to get the PL directly on the horn rather than his RTO, who goes by 4-6 romeo. Also, lack of company designator means that this transmission is probably happening over platoon net.
>4-7
Fourth platoon platoon sergeant.

Also, if you say 4-2, it naturally means you're trying to raise 2nd squad leader when there's no following precision.

Hopefully someone found this interesting and/or informative

I have an EOD buddy who said the same thing. That and
>the patch (eod patch) protects me

He'd say that if it was really big and nasty he'd forgo suits and stuff if it got in the way. He was in 03 Iraq and said they ran into like 8 artillery shells wired to some other stuff and he wagered that if he made a mistake he'd never know it

This is consistent with RAN EOD. I saw one walk right up to a suspicious package that had been dumped in a busy thoroughfare on base and kick the thing over without a shred of hesitation. They gave no fucks.

> if it was really big and nasty he'd forgo suits
Never saw them use a suit once.
Asked one why they didn't bother and he said 'It'll do four-fifths of fuck all'
Most are only rated to take 2kg of TNT equivalent at no closer than 2m. The average IED they were dealing with at the time was close to 10kg.

You be quiet, POG

>Is EOD a POG job?

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He only wore the suit when he was told do, or on rare occasions. That said, he had a fair amount of confidence in them for lower threats. But taking all the time to get them on was worth less than his life I guess. Real sharp guy, lots of good IED stories including when he came back to the states and a guy tried to lathe down a 40mm grenade he stole to fit into a 37mm flare launcher. It did not go well for him.

Maybe, but everything else in the video is pretty fucking bad.

>lathe down a 40mm grenade he stole to fit into a 37mm flare launcher
guess i can cross that off my bucket list

Yer fucking stupid bud, POG isn't a derogatory term but it literally applies to anyone who isn't a knuckle dragging 03-- again do you consider a combat engineer to be a grunt? POG does not mean REMF, or fobbit it just means you're not a grunt.

>Warhead armed by rotation
>Put it in a fuckin lathe

Yep, an ATF agent on the case asked "what went wrong" and he said "nothing, it worked exactly as it was designed to". The agent didnt think it was amusing though, since the agent was irate at bits of upper body bone shrapel being embedded into the blown out garage

There was also a guy who took an oxyacetylene torch to a "dud" AT-4 rocket he somehow got and tried to get the aluminum and copper out of. That one blew up like the whole half of the house or something

F

JAKE

My boss was EOD in the 90s. The guy knows pretty much everything there is to know about explosives, and was support to Bill Clintons security detail for a while. Way he says it, shit is pretty exciting.

My friend did bush and obama detail. His experience with secretary Clinton was not very good. In contrast, Bush's staff was mostly friendly, and while he never met Bush himself the guy bought them pizza. And since food and morale are directly related, its easy to guess which one he prefered. Obama was apparently okay outside the "get stuck in a closet for 30 mins because HRC has a surprise interview meeting in the room and apparently cant wait 30 seconds for you and dog man to leave" bit

Yes they always have combat engineers do it job for them anyway

Yea they are first to die anyway