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Originally Posted by Jack Moroney
I don't know what the reg says now, but when I used to get all my 18C (12Bs then) together for improvised demo training my basic rule was if you made it and it doesn't go, you blow it. Of course I accompanied them downrange which I think was more embarrassing for them than the razzing that they got from their peers.
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[QUOTE=SF18C]I’ll take a stab...
18 Series: only in designated hazardous duty operations, in peacetime (and I read that as not in a combat zone) call EOD. Let me know Goat!
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Well by the Reg... it doesn't matter whether your in Combat or in a training environment you must meet certain conditions. The biggest one was you had to be OCONUS. State side you should be calling EOD from the post your on to clear the range. Most Post that SF Groups are on have an EOD Company that they can train with. Hell on Bragg we have a EOD BN now, so there will be four EOD Comanies. The UXO had to be smaller than 120mm and for COL Moroney, the biggest one is you fired it and it duded. You clean it. From the mouth of Mr. Knight; it came from USSF going on MTTs or JECTs and leaving XUOs on a farmers field during the winter. Then he comes back to have a goat or sheep blown up in the summer.
In Combat we don't have EOD TECHs embedded with ODAs, as do the SEAL with their SEAL Platoons. So the 18C is the TECH - clear the way!!