Danger UXB: Difference between revisions

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Major Luckhurst. Ivor Rodgers takes on this persona after he's promoted to command of the unit.

* [[Gallows Humor]]: Rodgers is a master.

* [[Got Volunteered]]: Everyone assumes you have to volunteer for such dangerous work. They're wrong.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|A mine he's defusing goes off in Ash's face, and though he survives his psychological problems are likely to continue for years afterward.}}

* [[The Home Front]]: Which in this case is the front line.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: The authorities have made no preparations for bomb disposal whatsoever, originally telling police and air raid wardens to just pile up UXB's somewhere out of the way.

** Ash tries to free the detonator from a bomb stuck halfway up a brick wall by kicking it -- causing it to fall thirty feet to the ground. He gets strips torn off him by his CO, especially since the building it was stuck in was useless to the war effort.

* [[If You Die, I Call Your Stuff]]: Ash finds himself being issued with the uniform and billet of the last man killed.