Comments on: WaPo Digs for Bombs

By: FLOODMUD

FLOODMUD — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:12:05 +0000

God bless you clueless beautiful bastards–
It does not matter what we call our troops
that destroy the planted IEDs…they are all heroes. This is about PREVENTING the ‘sand cruds’
from planting the IEDs in the first place. Any of YOU war dogs think of a planned tactic that would or could, preempt the positioning of the enemy IED or surveil the area we want ‘clean’?, so we wont have such a large IED search element in our defences! No expense spared, go ahead think, your the experts…hey man you got it! “Secure the area to be free from IEDs night and day.” Can we ‘seed’ the secured areas so we get signals if the ‘sand crud’ is sneaking around …of course we can! Can we deploy (hide) weapons that will turn the insurgents to sand if they enter the NO zone? You bet…All we need is for you guys to think about it a bit. Let your noncoms know .. Sketch up your own design of an Anti-IED device. Man, be careful and God bless,
“Come back safe ya hear!”

By: SSG Kolski

SSG Kolski — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:07:36 +0000

As a Combat Engineer with 14 mouths combat experence on the mean streets of west Baggdad I can tell you that the buffalo is indespensable and we need more of them and the crazy SOB’s, combat engineers that drive them and operate them at all hours of day and night, I tip my stetson to them. Combat Engineers breach the way

By: Ray Nicholson

Ray Nicholson — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:25:36 +0000

Just think of how many more lives that could have been lost without these guys. God Bless all of our Men and Weman who are putting their life on the line. Its ashame that IDIOTS LIKE JOHN KERRY AND NANCY POLOSI CAN ENJOY THE FREEDOM OUR GUYS ARE FIGHTING FOR WHICH THEY ARE AGAINST.

By: John

John — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:12:50 +0000

I flew UAV’s in Iraq and always thought that if you get a UAV to follow behind a Buffalo you could catch these &(*&^ ‘s putting IED’s in after a pass. I could never get approval being only a lowly enlisted. Does anyone think this would work?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:29:58 +0000

Rivals? The British had the 1st UXB (unexploded bomb) squads durting the Blitz. During WWII the Combat Engineers were trained in basic UXB methods. That’s where my father was first introduced to what was to become EOD. When he retired after 26 years as a Master EOD he went on to be one of the first instructors at the Hadzaard Devises School at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Al. He was always proud of being a Combat Engineer. Remember it was the Combat Engineers that finally blew the wall at Omaha Beach, he was there.