UNEXPLODED ORDINANCE SWEEPER: Boys who go boom.

From: Coast weekly | Date: September 4, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Well, color me stupid. I'd thought that spending 10 hours a day running a magnetometer over weed-stubbled ground in search of live mortars that could detonate at any moment would be stressful. That tiptoeing daily through Death's tulips would take its toll, that the men entrusted with the sober task of making the very earth safe for human presence would have haunted eyes and tired faces. Shows what I know.

"Blowing stuff up is what we strive for," Tony Tennyson says merrily. Tennyson--former Navy man, 25-year veteran of ordnance cleanup, card-carrying member of the Boozefighters Motorcycle ...

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