Eod

[angry_young_man]

Royal Navy Mine Clearance Divers

[Scottie]

The EOD teams in Iraq, do they travel with convoy's along with infantry? Or do they have their separate units who come and secure Bomb sites and suspected bombs?

[angry_young_man]

Various pics of Multi-National EOD Teams:

http://forum.apan-info.net/win99-2k/TriCrab99-2.html

http://forum.apan-info.net/Fall00/gallery_2.html

[Sand Man]

Are EOD jump-qualified? HAHO/HALO, Static?

[BMF_EOD]

^^^^ Depends on the Country/Service.

THE USN EOD guys have to be a minimum static line qual but about 80% (guesstimate) are currently free-fall as well due to support for various other units that require that skill set.

The Aussie Clearance Divers are coming along in this area as well now that they fall under a SOC umbrella.

The Brits have an interesting approach in this area but little is known publicly so I'll default to their website.

http://www.army.mod.uk/rlc/units/11_...ional_role.htm

[angry_young_man]

Depends what unit the EOD team is. Us Brits have a parachute trained EOD squadron in the Army for deployment with the Parachute Regiment and 16 Air Assault Brigade. I believe the Army also provides Commando-trained EOD personnel for 3 Commando Brigade. As far as I know the RAF EOD teams have no parachute capability, but I do believe that some Royal Navy Clearance Divers do go on to do parachute training.

http://www.careers.royalnavy.mod.uk/...ance_diver.php
During the video on the page, one of the instructors has Para wings on his jacket.

Does anyone know if the Joint CBRN Regiment has some basic EOD training as part of their training. I know that they have worked closely with EOD teams while on operations.
http://www.flawlessmedia.co.uk/jnbc/

[angry_young_man]

Some good UK EOD pictures:
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod....Asc&search=eod

[LibertyUnites]

well since im here i might as well ask since ive wondered since i first saw an EOD truck.... are they just modified deuce and a halves or 5tons?

[BMF_EOD]

Which truck, what country?

The US EOD community is moving towards the Force Protection Inc. Cougar/JEERV. The Brits are also using this same vehicle to some extent but I think they call it the "Mastiff" I believe.

We will be doing a tech eval of a bunch of vehicles under the MRAP program in about a month. I have a feeling that the JEERV and/or RG-33 will be choosen out of the field.
More here

I am partial to the JEERV as it has already been proven to save the lives of many EOD techs during actual IED strikes.

[angry_young_man]

Yes I believe that the British Army EOD teams are going to recieve a number of Mastiff vehicles. The RAF EOD teams currently use the Spartan CVR(T), which will eventually be replaced by the Panther CLV.


Panther CLV

[BMF_EOD]

flat bottom = bad.

my opinoin.

[angry_young_man]

US Navy EOD










USAF EOD Training

[angry_young_man]

[angry_young_man]

US Navy (USN) Mineman (MN) Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Garry Myers, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Mobile Unit 4, provides perimeter security at a natural gas well fire in the Rumaylah Oil Field in Southern Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

[Ravage]

In Polish media he was described as an SFer lol