"Instead of cutting wires mere seconds from detonation, Castner describes the work as slow, procedural, and governed by layers of safety measures. "You send in the robot first. If that robot blows up, you send another. And if that one blows up, I'll drive you a third before a person walks down." When a human finally does approach an explosive, it's only after exhausting every other tool. "Walking down yourself is pretty lonely," Castner said. "It's called the 'long walk' for a reason.""
"In Hollywood films, a bomb technician's job often comes down to choosing which colored wire to cut. However, in reality, "the wire colors have absolutely no correspondence to absolutely anything," Brian Castner told Business Insider's Matthew Ferrera.He added, "You actually don't cut any of them." Brian Castner is a former Air Force explosive ordnance disposal officer, or EOD, whose job was to find and disarm improvised explosive devices before they could kill soldiers or civilians."
Brian Castner served as an Air Force explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) officer, training at the Navy's EOD School in 2003 and deploying to Iraq twice between 2004 and 2006. Bomb disposal work is slow, procedural, and governed by layers of safety measures. Remote systems and robots are used first; if a robot detonates, another is sent, and human approaches occur only after exhausting every remote and mechanical option. Approaching an explosive on foot is a solitary process known as the "long walk." Wire colors have no reliable correspondence to function, and technicians typically do not cut colored wires. Cinematic depictions often dramatize the intervening action.
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