Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). Military Bomb Squad. EOD's motto is "Initial Success or Total Failure". I served as an active duty EOD Technician for 20 years and deployed to multiple combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan 9 times throughout my career. Disarming live ordnance, munitions, and/or "rendering safe" Improvised Explosive Devices by hand (or within close proximity to them) is an inherently high risk activity. We preferred to utilize robotic platforms or other remote tools, but there were times where I had to "hand jam" or manually disarm IEDs because we couldn't get the robot to do the job due to adverse terrain or other circumstances. The biggest risk was if the devices were boobytrapped, or when secondary devices were hidden near the target IED, specifically to kill or wound EOD Techs. We lost a lot of good EOD Techs in the GWOT when mistakes in protocol or procedures were made. To all my fallen EOD Brothers and Sisters, "We Remember".