Hey,
I'm enlisting next Thursday (PTP + BMT) and I'm beginning to
realise how completely blur I am about the vocations I may get
posted to after BMT. On the whole I'm really not looking forward to
this whole running around the jungle with a rifle.
But like everyone else who has survived NS they tell me to go in
with a positive attitude. So I'm hoping I get a vocation I would
find interesting, more specifically EOD in the Engineers.
1) What do I have to do to get into a specific unit? (I know this
is a classic question that has been asked many times, but most of
the replies are outdated and people don't seem to be sure.)
2) What is EOD training like? (I read an IamA post on Reddit about
a EOD specialist in Iraq and he talked about doing exercises that
involved fine motor skills while in a bombsuit in hot, desert
conditions. That's all I know.)
3) What is life in an EOD unit like? Do you have to do bombsweeps,
etc?
4) I am 1.60m tall. I'm short and skinny, but PES A. Will I not
even be considered for EOD because I'm too small for the bombsuit?
I got sent for the Diver VA and rejected because I was too small,
hope this isn't an issue.
And before the inevitable bringing up of Hurt Locker, yes I have
watched it and I absolutely hated the movie. It did however make me
interested in EOD. But I know the whole gung ho aspects of the main
character was really far from the truth.
So yeah! Anyone out there have any information? Stories?
Anything?