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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Butler was one of the few women bomb techs on the Explosive Ordnance Division of the Air Force. She demonstrates a Packbot, a robot that helped her and her team disable IEDs, at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on Dec. 29, 2009. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Butler)
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Meet an Air Force bomb tech and the robots who helped her disarm IEDs

Most nights when she was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, before she fell asleep, Master Sergeant Elizabeth Butler...

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