What does the bomb squad do when there's no bomb threats?

[Fedorgasm]

I'm sure they spend time training and practicing, but once you've gotten to expert level and don't need 40 hours of training every week, then what do you do? Just sit on your ass?

And do only big cities have bomb squads? I've never seen one. I've never met anyone that worked on one. I've never even seen ads looking to recruit new bomb squad members.

And small towns that can't afford their own fire Dept often have a volunteer for dept instead. But what about bomb squads?

I should see if my town has one, and if not, I'll start a volunteer bomb squad. We could just hang out and drink beer and stuff because nobody ever bombs a small town. Yet I'd carry a cool looking badge so I get discounts at the ice cream shop and everyone will treat me like a hero. I may have drink beer too much already though

 

[HHJ]

They do routine patrols with their doggies is what the fuck they do

 

[Fedorgasm]

They do routine patrols with their doggies is what the fuck they do

How do you know? Are YOU a dog?

 

[HHJ]

How do you know? Are YOU a dog?

I work for a place that has a bomb sniffin dog who comes by every day.

It's a labrador and he's awesome.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Cool. Man I need to get a dog for my volunteer bomb squad.

A dog and then one of those robots.

The dog and robot do all the work, and fedorgasm drinks beer and gets discounts on ice cream.

 

[HHJ]

Cool. Man I need to get a dog for my volunteer bomb squad.

A dog and then one of those robots.

The dog and robot do all the work, and fedorgasm drinks beer and gets discounts on ice cream.

It's pretty rad, most of the days they bring the dog around and the dog is very friendly, and everyone knows him so he's just happy seeing the same people every day. So for those guys, most days are pretty easy. Some people leave behind bags and whatever and they always send the K-9 unit to check out any unattended bags. Nothing ever happens of course but theres always unattended things laying around everywhere all over the city, so they get these guys with their dogs to check them out, if that particular area has a unit assigned.

Not all places have them though. This is the first job I worked at, that had a dedicated K-9 unit.

 

[Dobymick]

Most cities that has them don't really need them but they can't fire the only true bomb experts because if you do that's when you will need them. So it's an odd situation that in order to keep bomb threats away you need a bomb squad that you don't really need it

 

[Lycandroid]

hit up taco bell, drop bombs in the employee bathroom and blast this song on the way home

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

I'm sure they spend time training and practicing, but once you've gotten to expert level and don't need 40 hours of training every week, then what do you do? Just sit on your ass?

And do only big cities have bomb squads? I've never seen one. I've never met anyone that worked on one. I've never even seen ads looking to recruit new bomb squad members.

And small towns that can't afford their own fire Dept often have a volunteer for dept instead. But what about bomb squads?

I should see if my town has one, and if not, I'll start a volunteer bomb squad. We could just hang out and drink beer and stuff because nobody ever bombs a small town. Yet I'd carry a cool looking badge so I get discounts at the ice cream shop and everyone will treat me like a hero. I may have drink beer too much already though

They maintain their training by playing minesweeper

 

[Tone C]

Yea, we have one very close to my town along with chemical response etc etc , the full she bang but we're a major league army town with a lot of vital stuff nearby and are a terrorist target .

 

[RichardHarrow]

That’s pretty much what this film is based on

 

[mozfonky]

I imagine that maybe they have other jobs. How bout the swat teams? what do they do when they're not killing atm robbing teens? I don't think there is enough of a demand in my area to have any sort of always active group of active swat team guys at the ready.

 

[mozfonky]

in my area, there was some sort of bomb issue the other day on one of our bridges, I haven't read up on it. If I had to guess, it would be just a bunch of fake devices that someone wanted to terrorize people with.

I remember working in a steel mill and we had to evacuate due to a bomb threat. We didn't ever know where they came from or what was the motive. We made submarine parts for the military so some people thought it was someone in the middle east, my guess was some disgruntled ex-worker. In any case, it was never anything other than a threat so far as I know.

 

[Mike]

I imagine we don't hear much about in house hiring. I've never heard of someone being promoted to detective but I know it happens. Same as the average person would have no idea how promotions work at my job, but it's the most basic and boring info to me.

 

[horc00]

They check out bombshells duh.

 

[GSP_37]

I would guess that's your elite specialty, but normally your job is something else like paper pusher, training instructor, speech writer.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

I'd imagine that they are regular cops but with extra training.

They probably do routine police work until they need to do bomb stuff.

 

[jeff7b9]

Probably call in fake bomb threats occasionally.

Then you can ask for a raise!!

 

[Busgosu]

plenty of this

 

[lsa]

they do what firemen does when there is no fires