Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Eventually, once training and equipment requirements were met, EOD squads were grown from seven-soldier to eight-soldier squads. [12] The Korean War solidified the requirement for a standing U.S. Army EOD capability. The U.S. Army EOD mission was expanded in 1954 to include the mission to render-safe and dispose of nuclear weapons.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge is a military badge of the United States Armed Forces which recognizes those service members, qualified as explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians, who are specially trained to deal with the construction, deployment, disarmament, and disposal of high explosive munitions including other types of ordnance such as nuclear, biological and chemical ...
Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal (NAVSCOLEOD) is located at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. It is a Navy-led, jointly staffed (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) school that provides the high-risk specialized, basic and advanced EOD training to United States, partner nations and selected US Government civilian ...
AEODRS is a Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal (JSEOD) program, executed through the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NAVEODTECHDIV) via the Navy Program Management Office for Explosive Ordnance Disposal/Counter Remote Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (PMS-408). [8]
The United States Army Ordnance Munitions and Electronic Maintenance School (OMEMS) was a school of the United States Army from 1952 until it merged into the United States Army Ordnance School in 2011. Its mission was to train military and civilians to safely disarm and dismantle explosives and repair and maintain electronics, missile and ...
The 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) is one of three explosive ordnance disposal groups of the United States Army.It is the command and control headquarters for all U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) battalions and companies located east of the Mississippi River in the Continental United States (CONUS).
These EOD specialists perform duties locating, identifying, rendering safe and disposing of foreign and domestic conventional, biological, chemical, or nuclear ordnance and IEDs; WMDs and large vehicle bombs; they conduct intelligence gathering operations on first seen ordnance and IEDs, and support very important persons (VIP) missions for the ...
EOD Soldiers are the Army's "preeminent tactical and technical explosives experts. They are warriors who are properly trained, equipped and integrated to attack, defeat and exploit unexploded ordnance, improvised explosive devices and weapons of mass destruction." [1]