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  • Airport Bureau dog teams sniff out Beale's Dragon Town

    Dragon Town is a training village. It is most often used by the 9th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) to practice clearing buildings. Today, it was the used by six dog teams of the Explosive Detection K9 unit from the Sacramento County Sherriff’s Office-- Airport Bureau along with teams from Beale’s

  • Defusing Danger: 20th CES hosts joint EOD exercise

    Exercise Salty Weasel 2024 showcased this camaraderie during a five-day exercise, which included two service branches from four military installations, at the McCrady Training Center on Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

  • Senior Airman Kyle Riley Enhances Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mission

    America’s adversaries use a variety of explosive weapons to attempt to harm service members and their allies. Senior Airman Kyle Riley is an Explosives Ordnance Disposal specialist, one of twelve Airmen trained in defending the 332d Air Expeditionary Wing against these threats. These Airmen use

  • 379th ESFS and EOD team up for counter UAS training

    The 379th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron and 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team partnered for a counter-small unmanned aerial systems training event at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Dec. 11, 2020.

  • Beale's K-9, EOD flights conduct collaborative training

    The missions found on Beale vary widely, from high altitude intelligence, to aerial refueling, and also to space detection and observance. It’s only through the cooperation amongst these missions, and Airmen, that they can continue upholding national security.

  • AFCEC begins rollout of high-tech EOD robots to installations

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Readiness Directorate made its first delivery of the new medium-size explosive ordnance disposal robot to the field Oct. 15, to Tyndall AFB. The Man Transportable Robot System Increment II is a remotely operated, medium-sized robotic system that enables EOD

  • MWD and EOD collaborate in joint operations at ASAB

    Job proficiency is key to staying on top of your game. Even while deployed, military working dogs and their trainers get top-notch experience with explosive ordnance Airmen. Day and night, Airmen from the 386th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron military working dog flight team up with Explosive

  • Resilient, Ready: MHAFB maintains readiness amid COVID-19 pandemic

    Gunfighters are doing their part in keeping birds in the air and boots on the ground through persistent and innovative trainings and placing critical personnel where needed to be successful. Even as work schedules adjust to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, squadrons push forward with the resources

  • ASAB Midnight Marauders visit EOD

    Midnight Marauders is a senior non-commissioned officer council program that conducts informal visits to various units and work centers throughout the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. Each Midnight Marauder visit is open to all 386th AEW members and serves as an avenue for Airmen to see how each unit

  • Kuwaiti, U.S. EOD techs conduct joint munitions disposal training

    Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense and U.S. explosive ordnance disposal teams joined forces for a controlled munitions detonation training designed to share knowledge in disposing of newly upgraded artillery rounds known as insensitive munitions. The new version of the round uses an upgraded shell casing

  • EOD Airmen maintain readiness

    U.S. Airmen assigned to the 20th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight participated in exercise Salty Weasel at McCrady Army National Guard Base Training Center near Columbia, South Carolina, Sept. 16 – 20.

  • EOD 134 Memorial Workout

    Airmen assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight hosted the EOD 134 Memorial Workout, Nov. 30.

  • 325 Munitions Flight : Moving ordnance and the mission forward

    In the four weeks since Hurricane Michael swept through the gulf coast and Tyndall Air Force Base, the 325th Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight, with the help of munitions Airmen from across the Air Force, have assessed their munitions facility for damage and are now moving their mission

  • EOD: always fit to fight

    Surrounded by the sound of clinking metal and upbeat music, a group of Airmen work to exhaustion as the sun begins to rise.For this group of 20th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal Airmen, working hard can mean the difference between life or death.The safety of the team as well as

  • Another tool in the toolbox

    It is a cool, fall day and the sun shines through the car window warming your face. Suddenly, the truck jerks and tumbles off the road. Your teammate is thrown from the truck, and flung out of sight. You exit the truck and find your teammate critically injured. He is presumably dead. There is no

  • EOD Airmen train for current operations

    U.S. Airmen assigned to the 20th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight performed improvised explosive device training, Dec. 14.The Airmen executed the procedures needed to properly clear a stateside IED site, eliminate threats and recover the remaining debris for investigation.

  • HAFB EOD conducts joint range clearance

    Airmen from the 49th Civil Engineer Squadron’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, and EOD representatives from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., and Fort Bliss, Texas performed a range clearance operation Oct. 30-31, 2017, on the Red Rio Range, north of Holloman AFB, N.M.

  • A chip that scrambles

    Mini Crypto is a self-contained encryption engine that generates its own session based “key.” Designed to be small and lightweight, it is about the size of a cracker.

  • Beale EOD participates in Urban Shield

    9th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance technicians participated in Urban Shield Sept. 10, 2017 in Dublin, California. Urban Shield is an exercise, which evaluates the response capabilities of law enforcement agencies and military units in the area. Beale EOD sent a team to Urban Shield to

  • Air Force EOD trains to increase readiness

    Explosives Ordinance Disposal technicians from around the U.S. Air Force participated in Operation Llama Fury 3.0, an EOD-specific exercise, Aug. 7-11, 2017, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis.

  • EOD conducts overnight training exercise

    Explosive ordnance disposal teams assigned to the 99th Civil Engineer Squadron executed an overnight exercise June 7-8 at the Nevada Test and Training Range as part of their deployment readiness exercises.

  • Airmen, FBI partner for training

    Members of Team Moody and the FBI partnered for roadside bomb and weapons of mass destruction training May 22-25, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga.The training brought to light the similarities and differences between the two bomb management teams.

  • EOD technicians defuse threats before they occur

    EOD technicians are trained to detect, disarm, detonate and dispose of explosive threats all over the world, making them are the specialists who bravely serve as the Air Force’s bomb squad.

  • Playing with fire; EOD technicians temper response skills

    Most of the crew is asleep, but for a few members. Outside, the sun is peaking over the horizon, sending long shadows across the terrain and buildings. Suddenly a loud banging from the door echoes through the hallway, breaking the silence and waking up the crew. The banging continues, and an Airman

  • Reutilization program saves millions of dollars

    Master Sgt. Bryan ONeill, a range section chief at the 177th Fighter Wing’s Detachment 1, Warren Grove Bombing Range in Burlington County, New Jersey, determined that he could utilize the Defense Logistic Agency’s Reutilization Transfer Donation database of equipment to acquire pieces of

  • Air Force, Army EOD joint training

    Explosive Ordnance Disposal team members, assigned to the 734th Explosive Ordnance Company EOD at Fort Bliss, Texas, participated in a joint training exercise with the 49th Civil Engineer Squadron EOD flight at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. Feb. 14, 2017.

  • Airman participates in EOD immersion

    Leaving a career field can be a scary proposition for an Airman who has been performing and learning the ins and outs of their job for the better part of a decade. The new career they choose may or may not be a good fit.Despite that, Staff Sgt. Michael McNally, 355th Maintenance Group scheduler,

  • Nellis EOD conducts counter-IED training

    The 99th Civil Engineer Squadron EOD technicians conducted a training exercise on May 5, 2016, at Nellis AFB in order to hone their skills and be better prepared for future scenarios.

  • CAF Month fitness challenges

    Desert Lightning Team Airmen participated in multiple fitness challenges to conclude D-M AFB’s Comprehensive Airmen Fitness Month, March 31.The 355th Civil Engineer Squadron’s explosive ordnance disposal and fire emergency service flights hosted the Fire Department Fitness Challenge and the 355th