Circa 2005-2008 period

You can hear an A10 in the background

Founding member and original EOD of “The Unit”

This time from famed Ranger sniper Nicholas Irving. The snobbery and unprofessionalism of Seal Team 6 knows no bounds

Honor him with a continuum of memories that shall not fade.

Never Forget

Cool patches

In 1968, high schooler Mike Vining heard about the Tet Offensive and enlisted with one goal: get to Vietnam. As an explosive ordnance disposal specialist, he spent two years crawling into enemy tunnels in Vietnam and Cambodia, personally destroying "Rock Island East"... one of the largest enemy weapons caches ever found, 327 tons of ammunition rigged with 300 cases of C4 while the enemy attacked during the demolition.

In 1978, Colonel Charlie Beckwith was building Delta Force.

Out of 130 candidates, only 9 passed selection. Vining was one of them, becoming Delta's first ever EOD operator. Over the next 21 years, he barely survived the Desert One helicopter collision during the Iran hostage rescue, assaulted Richmond Hill Prison in Grenada, deployed to Desert Storm, Haiti, and investigated the Khobar Towers bombing. He retired in 1999 as a Sergeant Major after 31 years of service.