These troops risk life and limb responding to IEDs and other explosive threats. Two seasoned Marine Corps EOD techs recently told Insider about the challenges of the job. There is no shortage of ...
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia – Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers from the 55th Ordnance Company (EOD) and Marine Corps EOD technicians briefed a Congressional staff delegation on the ...
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Tyler Blatter, an EOD specialist, places a mortar in chain vice straps to unscrew a fuse on Marine Corps Base Quantico, May 1, 2025. (Lance Cpl. Harleigh Faulk/Marine Corps) In ...
CAMP ETHAN ALLEN, Vt. — U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technicians conducted an unexploded ordnance clearance operation on a Vermont National Guard base to support U.S. Marine Corps infantry ...
Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal technicians prepare to deploy a 310 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle during an EOD exercise in support of exercise Northern Viking 2022, on Keflavík Air Base, ...
On Sunday, April 17, Lt. j.g. Aaron Fowler, age 29, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit One, died while participating in a training evolution with the Marine Corps at Marine Corps Base ...
Explosive Ordnance Disposal, or EOD, is the U.S. military’s bomb disposal community—often called the bomb squad of the armed forces. Each of the four branches maintains its own EOD units, sharing the ...
EGLIN AFB — Reinforcing the tightly held ideal that military personnel who serve, or have served, in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) work are a family, the nonprofit EOD Warrior Foundation is adding ...