WILD EOD Stories Like You've Never Heard! 🦀🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 • Kris Groves • Ep. 54

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You’ve heard EOD stories before - but NOT like this. In this episode the Liberty Risk crew sits down with Kris Groves - former Navy EOD tech attached to the SEAL Teams - pull up a chair as we start unpacking a life that doesn’t follow a normal script. Before the military, he was already making multiple six figures in his early twenties, traveling the world in the weapons industry, working arms shows like SHOT and IWA, living out of a 10,000-square-foot mansion… and walked away from all of it to enlist. No regrets. What follows is a deep dive into a side of the military most people don’t understand - and a pipeline that makes even seasoned guys stop and pay attention. From EOD prep to dive school to nine months of blowing things up on land and underwater, Chris breaks down what the pipeline is actually like - and why it’s designed to make people quit early. And yeah… the stories get out of control. A guy convincing an instructor that a crab pinching his 🥜 should cancel 1,500 burpees - and somehow winning that argument. Another guy drinking a full bottle of his own **** for a reduction in burpees… while the rest of the class tries not to throw up watching it. And that’s just training. Once he hits the Teams, it only gets better. Working alongside SEAL Team Two, Kris gives a rare outsider-insider perspective on the Teams - close enough to see everything, far enough to call it like it is. Then come the deployments and range stories. A French EOD tech in Djibouti smashing a live mortar with a shovel like it’s nothing. A rattlesnake coiled inside a soup can… and an Australian EOD tech casually blowing its head off with a blank round. Accidentally turning a training scenario into homemade napalm - melting burning plastic onto a truck with teammates inside. A Hollywood pyro repeatedly hitting a dead switch… then looking directly down the barrel right before it detonates in his face (thought he was a gonner!) And somehow, it still escalates. Fleet Week in New York with zero curfew - six EOD ruffians runn