Uh well actually, the phrase "Fire in the hole" is a civilian blasting term for initiating your detonators after filling a shot hole at a quarry.
The first Blasters in the modern military where civilians who joined the SeaBees during WW2 and opened up the Blasting school.
EOD also relied heavily on the British and SeaBees when they came onto the scene.

If you want to know what we military guys would say when doing military type stuff its "Smoke One" or Two or whichever the numerical number is.
The warning fire in the hole is used because most people know it, however part of our civilian warning is "move away from the sound of my voice" But I'm not real fond of that one as it invariably will have some one come up on you and say"What did you say?"

Not only is this a job, but my passion. I am a veritable cup who runeth over of useless historical knowledge on the subject, well this and firearms....

interestingly enough with all the views on this thread and not one of you has asked me what I was blowing up?

Uh well actually, the phrase "Fire in the hole" is a civilian blasting term for initiating your detonators after filling a shot hole at a quarry.
The first Blasters in the modern military where civilians who joined the SeaBees during WW2 and opened up the Blasting school.
EOD also relied heavily on the British and SeaBees when they came onto the scene.

If you want to know what we military guys would say when doing military type stuff its "Smoke One" or Two or whichever the numerical number is.
The warning fire in the hole is used because most people know it, however part of our civilian warning is "move away from the sound of my voice" But I'm not real fond of that one as it invariably will have some one come up on you and say"What did you say?"

Not only is this a job, but my passion. I am a veritable cup who runeth over of useless historical knowledge on the subject, well this and firearms....