What does it mean to open the hurt locker

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Brian Turner (b. 1967) served seven years in the U.S. Army, including in Iraq. His poem "The Hurt Locker" focuses on the title metaphor. From the descriptions in the poem what is a hurt locker? What does it mean to "open" the hurt locker?

(Optional: If you know the Academy Award winning film The Hurt Locker (2009), relate the title metaphor to both the film and the poem. What is the film's main character, Sergeant First Class William James, motivated by above all else? What is his personal hurt locker?)

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