IED Explosion in AfghanistanThe Real-Life Hurt Locker: Battling IEDs in Afghanistan -- Time Magazine
Gunnery Sergeant Matthew "Gunney" Small, 32, has a mustache, a thick Boston accent and a tendency to pepper his instructions with curse words. In a single day, Small investigated the site of an improvised explosive device (IED) blast, engaged in a 30-min. firefight with insurgents, blew up a bridge and then swept a road for more IEDs. On the way home, he paused for an intravenous drip — he was dehydrated — and then, after a 12-hour mission, called it a day.
It's not quite The Hurt Locker, the Oscar-winning movie that Small used expletives to express his disapproval of. But Small's men are the kind of guys that the film was based on: an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, heavy on the explosions but without the Hollywood theatrics or astronaut-like bomb suits.
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My Comment: These men are true heroes.
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