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Dexout
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Austin-25, U.S Army Veteran, 13B 82nd airborne, history enthusiast, my opinions are my own.🇵🇷
New Hampshire, USA Katılım Mayıs 2014
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A Great Example of Mentoring
In June 1970, I was an SP4. I had been doing EOD in Vietnam for less than 100 days when I was confronted with my first 500-pound bomb to defuse.
First Cav was setting up a fire support base they were calling FSB Camelot. While they were putting in M102 105 mm howitzer gun positions, they ran across dud bombs.
So, SFC Fearnow and I were called in to get rid of the bombs.
Two of the bombs had a red window, meaning they were armed.
So, immediately we evacuated the FSB by having everybody move 300 meters away.
Even if they both had shown green windows, we would treat them as armed, but when red was showing, there was no doubt.
One of the bombs was only about twenty feet from a 105 mm gun position. If it went off, it would take the gun and the crew with it. It would destroy a significant part of the FSB.
My mouth went dry as I took one bomb and Fearnow took the other one. He said that we’ll deal with the two bombs at the same time.
This was my first big bomb to render safe.
I used my bare hands to turn the fuze counterclockwise to unscrew the fuze from the bomb. Luckily, the fuze was not on it too tight.
I started turning.
The threads were smooth. The fuze rotated. I could feel every rotation through my hands, through my whole body. It's like I became connected to the bomb, like we were one thing, and if it decided to detonate, we would become nothing together.
Turn. Turn. Turn.
As I unscrewed the fuze, I wondered what would happen if it detonated. Would I see the bomb swell and a bright flash? Would I still have consciousness without a body?
The fuze came free.
I stood up and looked over at Fearnow. He was grinning.
"Not bad, Vining."
"Yeah," I said. My voice sounded strange. "Not bad."
Since my childhood, I had always wondered what it would feel like to disarm a large bomb when I saw a British bomb disposal officer do it in a movie. It was a large German bomb in a catacomb under London, England.
We walked fifty meters into the jungle, placed both fuzes in a small crater, rigged them with C-4, and a priming system. The explosion was sharp and clean. Two red windows were gone.
We pulled it together, no drama, no red windows. Just another piece of ordnance rendered safe.
By 1600 hours, we were done. The bombs would be sling-loaded out by helicopter.
I describe this incident with a lot more detail in “Blasting Through.”
But for today, I wanted to use this story as an example of mentoring.
At FSB Camelot, I recognized a great mentor in SFC Fearnow. He allowed me to defuse my first big bomb while he defused his bomb. We worked side by side. Close enough that he could help if I needed it, but far enough away that I had to do it myself.
Mentoring doesn’t have to be complicated. It should be a natural extension of your leadership. It’s not so much about teaching or supervising. Fearnow was just there to assure me that I could do it but that if I ran into trouble, he was there.
This was one of the first times I noted to myself how important mentoring is.
I decided to catalog in my mind each time I saw a great example of mentoring like I had witnessed with Fearnow that day in June 1970.
I figured that if I lived long enough, I would be the one on the ground with the most experience. And then I could pull out those filed away memories of good mentoring and help others practice the skill and build their confidence at the same time.

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