Temporary Archive: Suzanne Brockmann's Message Board

Don't think I said that--or I might have been making up and example, but what I meant was the choppers are "Low density High demand" Item as are SOF. But once Iraqi Freedom starter, most of the air got pulled out of Afgh., But a lot of SOF stayed. So for a while there we had something like 6 helos for about 90 A-teams, my guys and foreign SOF. In deliberate planning--you have time to plan--you generally submit three courses of action, which all should be viable and different enough to be distinct--in those COAs you general outline minum forces required--and than pros and cons--so one might be a vehicle partol and I'll need three humvees and another might be an air insert and I need 2 H47's--based on his priorities and what else he has going on, the boss selects the COA and gives either the requested or the minimum support required

It is actually more likely for training OPS to go goofy because the training cadre knows exactly what you are dong and intentionally tries to mess you up--not cause they're mean, but they want you mentally limber and not "in love" with the plan

What all does that cover? In EOD you learn to disarm all types of ordnance from pipe bombs to nuclear weapons--including improvised explosive devices.
What made you go into that area? My recruiter lied to me--I had to go into EOD ;'cause he told me it was the same as UDT and I didn't figure that out until it was too late.

Because of that experience were you always the most experienced SEAL in that area? Yes

What is your favorite ( bad word choice) part of what EOD entails or the thing you're really good at? My favorite part was just having the n*ts to do it---you are working on a machine designed to kill you and it has no concious--I was very good at improvised explosive devices, and because of that was selected to form the first detachment solely dedicated to IED, booby-traps and chemical IEDs