EOD & Bomb Tech Hats

Explosive ordnance disposal humor is gallows-calm, and the best of it comes from the people who do the work. "Initial Success or Total Failure" is the EOD motto, and it is on T-shirts, bumper stickers and coffee cups. One EOD tech describes the job as "a lot like brain surgery, except if we screw up the patient detonates," which is the bit behind one design here. Former Air Force EOD tech Brian Castner says you send the robot in first, and if it blows up you send another. When the robot cannot do it, the walk you take yourself is the long walk. He also says wire colors correspond to nothing, so the red wire is Hollywood. These EOD tech and bomb squad hats pair two badges, EOD TECH and BOMB SQUAD, with lines on the motto, the job with no undo button, the red wire, the long walk, the robot that goes first and the bomb tech who is walking, so you are fine. Retail already proves the running joke: Walmart lists several Bomb Technician "If You See Me Running Try To Catch Up" tees. A bomb suit weighs about 80 pounds and runs hot, and EOD memorial 5Ks are held on National EOD Day, so these also make a gift for an EOD family. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one if you take the long walk, or give one to the tech who does.