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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 13, 2019, 10:55:06 am
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What it takes to do one of the US military's most dangerous jobs
Christopher Woody, Business Insider
May 12, 2019 at 11:04 AM
The pilots who fly the Air Force's fighters and bombers, the crew members who keep them in the air, and the controllers who guide them are all focused on getting ordnance to targets. The Air Force's explosive ordnance disposal technicians, however, are part of a small cadre whose job is to find and eliminate ordnance on battlefields or at home.
After working as a technician gathering blood to treat wounded troops, Master Sgt. Linn Dillard retrained for EOD at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base in 2009, becoming one of just three of 25 students in her class to pass the course.
During her Air Force career, Dillard has overcome a traumatic brain injury suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated under her armored vehicle in Afghanistan, survived Stage-3 breast cancer, and won medals at the 2017 and 2018 Defense Department Warrior Games.
https://taskandpurpose.com/what-it-takes-to-be-eod