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It’s the small budget sleeper예상외의 성공 물 that’s become an explosive contender in this year’s best picture Oscar race. The Hurt Locker focuses on an army bomb squad unit on patrol in Iraq. Nail-biting scenes like this lead viewers on the edge,the delicate work of detonating bombs. Think it’s just the stuff of the movies? Not for this elite group of airmen. It’s real life warfare as we quickly learned during a visit to Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base.
What we caught members of the EOD team, the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit, in action. They’ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan and know firsthand직접으로 the dangers of disarming bombs. In the movie, Jeremy Reno plays an IED team leader who loves to take risks. “What’s he doing?” “I don’t know.” “I’m going to die. I want to die comfortable” Master Sergeant상사 Flinz says in the real world, that wouldn’t fly받아들이다. “He is a cowboy. We don’t try to operate like that.” “What happens if you do?” “Well, one of my team members not gonna let me”
Teammates like senior airman Michael Buras. “That’s how we do, we do. We have each other. We use each other. We train together. We live together. We eat together, every day, every night.” We rode along for a practice drill on the base’s desert range. The conditions are similar to the rugged terrains of Iraq and Afghanistan. And just like scenes in the movie where soldiers use robots to scour제거 for bombs, this EOD team zeros in on a possible roadside explosive.
The team assesses평가하다 the size of the IED, then secures the surrounding area. In today’s exercise, they decide to detonate the device from a distance. But sometimes, they’ve got to go when with the suits on. The kind Reno wore in the movie. 80 pounds of protective gear. Reno’s character gets pinned down on a number of bombs he’s defused. “How many bombs have you disarmed?” “I’m not quite sure.” “Sergeant? Yes. Asked you a question. 873.” In real life, for some, that’s subject to this taboo. “How many bombs have you detonated? Do you even keep track of this or too many to count?” “I could keep track, but I don’t.
Flinz lost three of his own team members An estimated 64 American EOD technicians have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. A reminder to these airmen that each call to disarm could be their last. It’s a sense of duty and danger that these airmen say keeps them on the battle field. Karen Winter, CNN, Nellis Air Force Base.