A Bodyguard in Baghdad (and Other Places)

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A SA-6 "Gainful" surface-to-air missile in its shipping-crate, ready to be taken away for disposal - it has a maximum altitude of just over 35,000 feet:

A view from the business-end

Detonation:

This was too good to reduce in size

Me checking a local culvert for explosives:

Hope like hell I can see daylight at the other end!

A bridge too far:

Providing cover for the vehicles to cross

Keeping back the crowd while waiting for a roadside-bomb (aka IED, or Improvised Explosive Device) to be cleared:

Stay back and nobody will get hurt

Tools of the trade:

Clean, pack and rack

Sign on the back of the rear Humvee of a US convoy:

Don't say you weren't warned

When an arms-cache is found by the US-forces, they drop it off for disposal by our engineers:

These explosives are added to the existing pile and blown up.

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