NASHVILLE — An Engineer Corps soldier keeps introducing himself as Explosive Ordnance Disposal to ladies in the bars and nightclubs around Second Avenue, sources confirmed Friday night.
Staff Sgt. Jonathan Myers, an engineer in the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, has not been to EOD school, is not a bomb technician, and has never defused an IED or conducted large-scale ordnance demolition. But that hasn't stopped him from capitalizing on the glory and prestige that the EOD corps has accumulated in the last few years of the Global War on Terror.
“Oh yeah, babe,” Myers shouted to three young female Vanderbilt psychology majors, over the blare of the music in UV, a Nashville nightclub. “Remember that movie ‘The Hurt Locker’ and how awesome it was? That’s my job.”
