Dillard: "So sometimes we see it; sometimes other people call it in. The first thing you want to do is get out of the way, so they'll cordon it and keep a safe area, try to look it as far away as possible, see if you can identify any factors that key you into what it is and how it works, and then based on that you approach it and you could do some diagnostic techniques."
"We use X-rays. We use robots, so that we aren't right up on it in case it does go off, and some of them are tricky. It looks like it's one thing, but really it operates another way, and it's hard to stay a step ahead of the bomb-makers, but we do our best and we try to do it as safely as we can, and remotely is one of those ways. So we do a lot of training with the robots, and we try to use our diagnostic capabilities so that before we're actually touching the item and messing with it, we understand how it works and we're not going to set it off."
"We use different cutting techniques, different explosive charges, different explosive tools. We use water. You'd be surprised how powerful water can be to disrupt something, so that it breaks it apart before it can get set off, and then that's the intent. You can collect the evidence, get fingerprints. You can get a lot of information doing a post-blast analysis after the fact and find the guys that make it so that they can stop putting them in the ground."