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New guy going into war. real quick on the volleyball court, you saw that. that was a brand new building, when we deployed in 2010 we left from a condemned building that wasnt supposed to be used in 30 years. that built that building when we were gone and moved them back into it and that volleyball court was a really pretty parking lot and the first thing the eod techs did was made it a volleyball court. that tells you everything you need to know about eod. >> carley: we got a little bit of a sen...

Guy going into war. real quick on the volleyball court. that was a brand-new building. when we deployed in 2010 we left from a building that was a condemned maintenance space. it wasnt supposed to be used in the last 30 years. they built that while we were gone and move them back into it. the volleyball court was a pretty parking lot. the first thing the eod techs did when they got back from deployment was grab the hammers and made the volleyball court. that tells you everything you need to know...

Able to remember things. >> yeah. >> but not so much anymore. >> and when youre training eod guys now in alabama, do you talk about this with them, do you let them know, look, this is what could happen and this is how your life could change? is that part of the training no you? >> well, i think -- as eod techs, we all know it could happen. its a risk of the job. you can only play with fire so many times before you get burned. what i like to do is tell them my story and what i did in more detail ...

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...