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E.o.d. tech would miss something like that sitting next to a park bench in a sweep? >> not in the pictures i saw. your eye goes right to it. they did nothing to conceal or camouflage this whatsoever. it looks like something that someone with training on identifying bombs would do. >> im with you, buddy, i dont do conspiracy theories either. but its an appropriate question nobody is asking except me and you on saturday night. as always, thanks for your service to the country. >> same to you, dan....

Thats it. >> its similar to the fire department department in a lot of ways. but what may be different is that eod neutralizes explosive threats, the full range, in order to collect. in order to collect information that leads to some type of targeting cycle. thats what i think makes us a little bit different. we were there with about 80 marines total with our two platoons together. eight of them were killed in action. that is 10%. that is not counting how many other that were severely wounded. 1...

Department in a lot of ways but i think what may be a little bit different is eod neutralizes explosive in order to collect information that leads to some type of targeting cycle. >> thats what i think makes us a little bit different. >> joey: so we were there with about 80 marines i think on that deployment total with our two platoons together. eight of them were killed in action. thats 10%. thats not counting i dont know how many of us were severely wounded. 100% volunteer. >> correct. >> joey...

E.o.d. tech from the publicly available photos of scene show a lack of soot on the the walls, relatively little amount of shrapnel, there is a tree that was knocked down that was -- with the foilage still in act. so after viewing these things, do you still stand by with a high degree of confidence there was a significant explosion and not something like a gas tank explosion or something like that that may misdirect the evidence of a big secondary explosion? >> we know that, as i said earlier the...

>> in the village, the convoy finds a narrow bridge blocking their path to the bomb site. >> i am going to dismount. >> rather than risk driving over the bridge, ricky decides to make the dangerous trip on foot. >> i will be back and well get a game plan. >> in hostile territory, an eod tech is always accompanied by an army escort and interpreter. its a long walk for ricky knowing not everybody in the village is on his side. and the road is rumored to be littered with ieds. only the taliban know...

Very dangerous work done by troops who disarm bombs and boobytraps. so what do the troops in todays afghanistan war think of the film? listen to this. >> i thought that "the hurt locker" was pretty good. i enjoyed it. whether or not i think its accurate could be debated. overall, i think that the job of eod was decently accurate. im not too sure about that because im not an eod tech. but i thought it was good overall. it portrayed the main actor, if you will, kind of as a renegade or a rule-brea...