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Students have flocked to the Navy's EOD school in recent years
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Each year thousands of military members volunteer to become explosive ordnance disposal technicians, a highly sought-after specialty for today's military. All of them train at the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal, tucked into a 730-acre ...

Former EOD sailor awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal - Insight News
Insight News
DENVER (NNS) -- A former Sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal during an award ceremony held at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, Colorado, April 17. Rear Adm.

EOD tech competes in Warrior Games - Air Force Link
Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base
This is Horton's second time competing in the games. As an EOD technician, Horton has been injured several times while deployed with multiple shrapnel and blast injuries. Horton is a 21st Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician.

Front-line ANSF units learn EOD skills - RC East
ISAF | Regional Command East
The course is meant to teach Afghan National Security Force personnel the skills needed to remove improvised explosive devices without needing to call in a team of explosive ordnance disposal experts. It is taught by civilian contractors from around ...

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GAO: EOD Training Has Eroded
DefenseNews.com
Constant deployment of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel on counter-IED missions is eroding training, according to a new GAO report. “Meeting the demands for EOD forces in combat operations has negatively affected EOD units' personnel and ...
Eglin bomb squad discovered a bomb on baseWEAR

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EOD school sees change of command
The Northwest Florida Daily News
EGLIN AFB — During his two years as commander of the Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal school, Capt. Joseph Polanin oversaw training of an unprecedented number of students as the military's need to locate and disarm explosives skyrocketed.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal robots help save livesNew Bern Sun Journal
EOD Community Hosted 44th Annual EOD Memorial CeremonyUS Navy SEALs Blog & Information (blog)

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EOD tech school pays tribute to 11 killed in duty
Marine Corps Times
The Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal school is on a remote swath of the sprawling Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle. Bomb disposal technicians from all branches of the military must graduate from the school's intense program, which has a ...
Names added to EOD wall in solemn ceremony (GALLERY)The Northwest Florida Daily News
Memorial honors fallen EOD techniciansNavarre Press

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It Wasn't Supposed to End This Way for Tim Johns
New York Times (blog)
Senior Chief Tim Johns was a Navy explosive ordnance disposal technician. As such, he was part of an elite fraternity. Numbering around 1,600 men and women, it is one of the Navy's smallest communities. But along with their brothers and sisters in the ...

EOD trains with a bang
DVIDS
Left to right: Spc. Ryan Renslow, team 2-3 sergeant for 722nd Ordnance Company Explosive Ordnance Disposal, 192nd Ordnance Battalion, and St. Paul, Minn., native, discusses troubleshooting measures of a talon robot with Spc. Jeremy Sappingfield, team ...

Former EOD sailor awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal
DVIDS
Subscribe To This Journalist. DENVER - A former sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal during an award ceremony held at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, April 17.