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'High value target' for insurgents

The death this week of Royal Logistic Corps Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, who had made safe 64 bombs during five months in Afghanistan, has raised the work of the army's bomb disposal operators.

Former bomb disposal operator Major Chris Hunter discusses the pressures faced by the army's bomb disposal units and the mental qualities needed to survive.

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