First Crabs, now 85 years in the rearview

Some 85 years ago this week, on 22 August 1941, at the Navy Gun Factory (now the Washington Navy Yard), Mine Recovery School Class No. 1 graduated, minting 10 officers (three of them Coasties), five chiefs, and eight ratings in the art of Navy EOD. These men, who all certainly went on to risk life and limb around moody, explosive-filled