“Smoke, smoke, smoke, five minutes to detonation,” rang out over the radio during a joint training exercise between explosive ordnance disposal members from the 21st Civil Engineer Squadron, 302nd CES and Buckley’s 140th CES at the Airburst range and training complex at Fort Caron, just west of Pueblo, Colo.
Hot, dry and windy; back dropped by the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, the Airburst range at the southern-most end of Fort Carson’s training area could easily be mistaken for anywhere in Afghanistan.
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