Special Ops Bomb Tech Rates 11 Bomb Disposals in Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

I totally get why this dude was an EOD Tech. His whole demeanor and personality is so calm while explaining and a few times, he purposely didn't go into detail about certain procedures/intel. Still maintains a level of professionalism. I like that.👍🏽

You need to bring this guy back. So awesome when your experts have such a demonstrable knowledge base and look at scenes realistically and give scores accordingly.

The color-coding of wires on bombs is just so hilarious when you think about it. In most electrical applications, color-coding is specifically so repair people can tell what they're dealing with at a glance. In fact it's often regulated by code or actual law. Why would a bomb-maker even consider making it easy to disable? Unless it's for story purposes, like it's a fake bomb, okay then sure. Or if it's to fool the heroes, "Aha! You've fallen for my trap! Those obvious wires outside all make the bomb go off instantly!"

I like this guy, he seems very knowledgeable and professional, but also friendly and down to earth

I love that the most realistic part of hurt locker was the eod flipping off the team haha

This would be to me one of the most scary professions.😬 A big thank you to our service members, as well as techs!

I was a civilian bomb tech for 25 years for a large sheriffs office. Just like the military we do training at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama for IED recognition. A really useful procedure in any disruption whether you’re going hands on or remotely, is the acronym PIES. It stands for power supply, initiator, explosive, switch. If you remove anyone of these, the device will not function. I would explain this to students using a simple fire cracker as an example. The power supply would be someone lighting a match. The initiator would be moving the match to the fuse, the explosive would be the cylindrical portion of the fire cracker. and the switch would be the fuse. So, just like with this simple device, all the way up to the nuclear weapon, if you remove one component, the device simply won’t work. Great video.

I like the fact that he actually used the 10 point scale. He didn't just give everything an 8 or above to be nice.

I've read that IED-guys are still rolling in laughter because of "Hurt Locker". 🤣🤣🤣🤣

His knowledge on things that go boom is incredible, but the amount he brings up nukes makes me wonder exactly how often a nuke has almost gone off

My dad was Navy EOD from 62-84. Always a hoot to watch James Bond movies and hokey TV shows involving bombs. Miss that time with my dad.

I was a grunt in the Marines attached to an EOD unit. Everything he's saying is 100% accurate

This has been one of the more interesting Insider expert react videos I've seen. Would love to see more stuff from this dude. Great insight without getting too specific for obvious reasons.

How can you possibly say Archer couldn’t disarm that bomb?! He was wearing his black turtleneck, that’s essentially an expert pass on all things special agent. Archer: “First letter B” Ray: “BRAVO!!” Archer: “Thank you” 😂😂😂😂

my friend in college was an EOD tech. he told me that if there was an IED that he thought might go off in his face while disarming it, he would sit as close to it as possible and get as comfortable as possible, without any bomb blast gear. he told me he did this because he wanted to die rather than survive and be maimed if an IED went off while he was working on it. i could never tell if he was messing with us or not

I love that he even avoids revealing certain details. 4:38 for example. Keep the integrity! Oorah!

It's great when you get these professionals react to scenes! So much fun and education!

Oh man that MacGruber scene is great. "There's like a thousand wires in here! I'm like a three wire guy."

I would pay for a ticket to see Jay review the whole hurt locker movie

There was a video about a British Bomb Disposal member during WW2. He stated that once he got to the bomb the first thing he always do was that he sat on it before he began his work. So in the event if the bomb went off he wouldn’t know about it.