What it's like to avoid Improvised Explosive Devices

22.11.2010

What they do instead is go out and build bombs in a place where they think you will come by. So the roads were always bad for us. They'd set them up in places where they would predict we would be, and then, when we come by, set them off.

That's a strange one. I don't know how I personally felt about it at all. Usually I stifled any issues with that because I had a job to do. I focused on what are we trying to do, what's our plan, our mission. I had so many other things to worry about that that didn't come into my mind an awful lot.

It's a very interesting environment to be in, but if you start worrying about it too much, if you get too paranoid, that keeps you from doing your job.