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Corrected entry: EOD personnel would NEVER attempt to manually-defuse an Improvised Explosive Device. A BOT (robot) would be deployed holding a chunk of C-4, which would then be dropped or placed on the IED and then sent back to the command post. The C-4 would then be detonated with the resulting pressure-blast usually detonating the IED. The potentially of a lethal-outcome of an EOD member manually-defusing an IED would be beyond great. Many IEDs are booby-trapped and/or daisy-chained to other explosives.

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Corrected entry: In the sniper scene in the desert, the shelter the insurgents are using was built by mud or brick cinder blocks. Since the Barrett is actually an anti-materiel sniper rifle, i.e., to be used against vehicles that are armored, .50-caliber armor-piercing bullets from a Barrett M107 would have cut through those blocks like a white-hot knife through butter. The Barrett rifle has absolutely devastating power, and if Sgt. Sanborn had enough .50-cal. bullets he could have collapsed the small building on its foundation.

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