I just watched the film
The Hurt Locker recently. I didn't really know anything about it and it totally shocked me. What the hell?
First:
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Originally Posted by Spoid Fragmauck, Bomb Squad Expert
Last night night I watched The Hurt Locker and sat there and silently nitpicked about everything. Like the part when he yanks up all of those out of the ground and takes the time to individually unscrew each blasting cap, or the part where he's like "OH, THERE IS A CAR BOMB. IT'S MADE OUT OF ARTILLERY ROUNDS WITH DET CORD!" and then the dude goes on a super intense race against time to disarm it. Kids, if you ever find an IED and feel like disarming it... just cut the cords. Or wire, if it's an electric initiation. It takes like 2 seconds. And then he's like "Oh man, a dead man's switch! This guy was good." Cool, well a dead man's switch doesn't make any difference if it isn't connected to anything. Idiot.
Shit, I hope I'm around when someone finds a car bomb like that so I can look like an EOD hero. I'd be like "Don't worry, I WILL DISARM IT!" and then I would like frantically flap the det cord around like I was looking for a weak point in it or something, then I would run my hands up and down the length of it for no reason and everyone would be all biting their nails and sweating and looking worried and then I would be like "OH NO! TEN SECONDS!" and everyone would gasp and then I would cut the det cord in two and be like "Oh, so close!"
Not that I'm a super experienced bomb technician or whatever but... it's not a nuclear MacGruber device. Some angry fundamentalists with an education equivalent to that of an American 3rd grader put it together. Plus like 80% of the bombs they tried to disarm in the Hurt Locker blew up anyways, so that's dumb. They should have just shot them with a BAZOOKA from their FIGHTER JET.
Hahaha, one time in JRTC we were Opfor and we set up a mine field and an 11 row and these engineers tried to breach it so we let them go toss out their ring main and all that nonsense then we had a guy run across the road and he's like "CHYAH!" and whacks their initiation line with his e-tool and cuts it in half... and then we just shot whoever ran out to try to retie it. Hahaha, they were reservists, those guys don't know shit.
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Also bullshit:
- Lone EOD team operations.
- Big bottles of whiskey on duty.
- Heading into town in a hoodie.
- Smoke grenade for no reason.
- EOD snipers with .50 M107s.
- Team of 3 men clearing huge buildings.
- Make-believe scary superbombs.
...and countless shit that's total fantasy.
I can go on for hours. I haven't been this offended by a movie in a long time.
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I'm not an expert, but I used to do stuff like that for a living back in the day. Please know that this movie is a total two-flush turd. If I met the director of this celluloid piece of poo, I'd slap her across the face with my 5-34. Silly civilian... please consult an EOD adviser for a few of your thousands of dollars?
And if you liked this movie... you should be ashamed of yourself. Or at least realize that it's utter fantasy.
The problem with this movie is it becomes a tarp of truth for people that don't know about the military or this job in particular. They consciously or subconsciously associate those characters with guys like Fragmauck. I'm really tired of people making generalizations about the job and who we are as people because they've been educated by a piece of crap film.
"You did that? You must be a dangerous PTSD alcoholic with a death wish! You're scary."
/unnecessary veteran rant