Meet the Elite Air Force Bomb Squad That Defuses…Cannonballs from the Civil War
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It isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan, but that doesn’t make the job anything less than terrifying.
The call comes in around eight p.m. on Richard Swann’s military-issued flip phone. (“Old school, you know?” he jokes. “The government doesn’t want to buy us any new technology.”) It typically sits silent in its charger for weeks at a time in the living room of Swann’s home in Dallas, Georgia, a small town about thirty miles northwest of Atlanta. Still, Swann is hardwired to answer it, rushing from his seven-year-old daughter’s room, where, on this Thursday night, he’s cut short a debate over bedtime. He knows every call, however infrequent, could be a matter of life or death.
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2 comments:
Great story, Lisa!
I thought it was pretty interesting, so glad you enjoyed it too!
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