Explosive Ordnance Disposal Activities

Photos depicting military personnel engaged in explosive ordnance disposal and related activities in conflict zones, primarily in Iraq.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Steven Taylor, a water support technician with Energy Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, and Ponte Vedra, Florida native, primes the raw water pump, during exercise Resolute Dragon 22 at Kamifurano Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 6, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains.

041228-M-0036Y-127. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050609-A-1566H-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Charlie Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041207-M-0036Y-002. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050609-A-1566H-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Charlie Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060424-A-7969G-008. Subject Operation/Series: SWIFT SWORD Base: Sukariya State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

041228-M-0036Y-118. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030319-M-4779G-021. Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: RCT-1

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Steven Taylor, a water support technician with Energy Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, and Ponte Vedra, Florida native, primes the raw water pump, during exercise Resolute Dragon 22 at Kamifurano Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 6, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains.

021017-F-6340W-007. Subject Operation/Series: SABERTOOTH 2002 Base: Bolling Air Force Base State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 11 Wing

041228-M-0036Y-086. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Military engineers from Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul and the 2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment inspect a bridge project on Highway 1 during a quality assurance, quality control visit on Nov. 15, 2010. PRT Zabul is comprised of Air Force, Army, Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel who work with the government of Afghanistan to improve governance, stability, and development throughout the province.

040513-M-2900S-068. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DA-SC-87-07938. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '86 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An abandoned Iraqi M-160, 160mm mortar stands at an outpost after Iraqi forces withdrew from Kuwait City during Operation Desert Storm.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Kuwait City Country: Kuwait(KWT)

U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christopher Russell, Engineer Support Platoon Commander with 3rd Landing Support Battalion, guides a D7 dozer at Henoko Beach, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 24, 2022. 3rd LSB conducted a battalion field exercise to train core mission essential tasks and rehearse emerging warfighting concepts in preparation for future exercises and operations. 3d MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward-deployed combat unit that serves as III MEFs comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Federico Marquez)

helmet with rope and tools for industry alpinism job

030509-M-8683D-011. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD Base: Camp Red Horse, Utapao Country: Thailand (THA)

Members of Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, service the burner of a field kitchen stove at the division combat operations center during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu. A1 Hill, Eliane, battle site of the final Vietnamese military victory over the French in 1954, barbed wire

111120-M-BC982-307LOPBURI, Thailand (Nov. 20, 2011) U.S. service members assist the local community by removing fallen debris at the Sanamchai School. Joint U.S. forces assisted the Royal Thai Army Special Warfare College during flood clean-up and are supporting the Royal Government of Thailand in their flood relief efforts.

031203-F-1545M-001. Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTAF

Members of the National Guard search for simulated wounded and dead during Exercise Vigilant Guard at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana May 12, 2007. More than 2,000 National Guard personnel are taking part in Vigilant Guard, an 11-day exercise that tests the National Guard as first military responder in support of the governor and the state emergency management agency after the simulated detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear device.

030402-M-5150A-031. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041228-M-0036Y-162. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041228-M-0036Y-046. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Soldiers, Armed Forces of the Philippines soldiers, Philippine National Police and local government officials look on as a bulldozer clears away a landslide on an important road that connects many villages during a joint AFP and U.S. humanitarian mission in the southern part of the Mindinao province of the Philippines Sept. 9, 2007.U.S. Forces are part of the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines that supports the AFP in their war on terror efforts and humanitarian missions in their county.

050713-A-6108G-413. Base: Balad Air Base Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060817-N-0775Y-002. Base: Fort Hunter Liggett State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-89-05317. Subject Operation/Series: READINESS CHALLENGE 87 Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

041228-M-0036Y-079. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060219-A-5745M-098. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MNT 2ND BDE

041113-M-1250B-024. Base: Lutafiyah State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040616-F-6335P-354. Complete Scene Caption: US Navy (USN) personnel from the Naval Mobility Construction Battalion, Port Hueneme, California (CA), back fill the foundation, for the new Timehri Primary School, with rock and dirt during Exercise NEW HORIZONS 2004-Guyan. NEW HORIZONS 2004 - Guyana is a joint service training exercise held in Guyana, South America co-sponsored by both the US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) in Miami, Florida (FL), and the Guyana Defense Force (GDF). During this four-month exercise, a combined team of GDF and US military personnel will be engaged in construction projects and medical training activities that directly benefit the local community. The exercise will include up to three construction projects and two Medical Readiness Training Exercises (MEDRETE). Base: Timerhi State: Mahaica-Berbice Country: Guyana (GUY)

United States Army ranger in the mountains.

Vice Admiral Vivien Crea - 26-HK-15-59. numerous white supply bags on ground with HH60 in background. Hurricane Katrina

Front view of explorer exiting a cave.

The wreckage of an Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker lies scattered in the jungle on San Juan Hill. The aircraft, of the 305th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana, crashed on San Juan Hill after missing an approach at Howard Air Force Base. All four crew members perished in the accident.. Base: Naval Station, Rodman Country: Panama(PAN)

030406-M-0049F-104. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sayyid Abd Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060421-N-8683B-096. Base: Naval Air Station, Key West State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer John Leahy, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technician, digs inside a unit during a recovery mission in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Sept. 23, 2022. EOD is responsible for locating any unexploded ordnance that may be found while excavating new dig sites. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Fisher and historical cannon in the Fortaleza de Sagres, Vila do Infante, Sagres, Algarve, Portugal, Europe

040811-F-0193C-012. Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

United States Army ranger in the mountains.

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 22, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, review a terrain model before conducting a live demolition range on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Aug. 24, 2022. CLB-22s Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation is the battalion's final evaluation to demonstrate combat readiness through proficiency in core mission essential tasks before they begin a change of operational control (CHOP) to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

030407-M-0175R-036. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

From left, U.S. Army Sgt. Clarence Balansi, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery noncommissioned officer, jumps out of a wet-screen pond with the help of Sgt. 1st Class Luigi Lawrence, a DPAA team sergeant, and Harry Lawson, a DPAA recovery team excavator operator, during a recovery mission in England, April 30, 2022. The recovery team made a dam in the center of the wet-screen pond to prevent silt from clogging the hoses while the team is screening. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

152nd Security Forces Squadron (SFS) Airmen participate in a shoot house training event utilizing simulation paint rounds while practicing room clearing techniques during a week-long training event at the U.S. Army Freedom Ranges, Hawthorne, Nev., June 19, 2022. 152 SFS members participated in a five-day training exercise consisting of various events to improve weapon and technique proficiency.

030503-M-9892R-012. Subject Operation/Series: BALIKATAN 2003 Base: Camp Ternate State: Cavite Province Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Major Command Shown: 2nd Battalion 7th Marines

030321-M-6270B-074. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

helmet with rope and tools for industry alpinism job

Coast Guard Personnel and Civilian Operations - 26-HK-72-2. civilian moving oil-spill boom material near waterfront2. Hurricane Katrina

030420-A-XXXXX-2155. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030806-F-7709W-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Marines stand watch over confiscated Iraqi weapons which include a ZPU-1 anti-aircraft gun and machine gun barrels. The Soviet-made weapons were confiscated during Operation Provide Comfort. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Civilian contract workers and members of Reserve Naval Construction Battalion Hospital Unit 22 work alongside one another as they set up Fleet Hospital Six during Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Bahrain (BHR)

030810-M-7837W-007. Base: Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base State: Al Ahmadi Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Sergeant Gordon, a heavy equipment operator with the 518th Engineering Company, operates a D-7 bulldozer. Base: Fort Clayton Country: Panama (PAN)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Francisco-Javier Melendez, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician with 3rd EOD Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, observes the aftermath of a large scale detonation at Ta Mor Roi Training area during Humanitarian Mine Action EOD Level 3 in Surin Province, Thailand, Jul. 27, 2022. Royal Thai and American Armed Forces work together to train TMAC students in EOD level 3 in order to develop an EOD capacity to assist TMACs mission of becoming landmine free. This partnership is aligned with the U.S. Department of Defenses Humanitarian Mine Action Program, which assists partnered nations affected by landmines, explosive remnants of war, and the hazardous effects of unexploded ordnance.

One of the 20 weapons caches that U.S. Marine Corps Marines found during Operation Southern Advance.

Soldiers discovered four caches in Abu Ghraib over a five day period. The Soldiers estimate there were around 150 mortar rounds, 60 RPG rounds, 130 grenades, 120 rockets and more than 30,000 rounds of small arms ammunition. There were also several launching devices for the mortars, rockets and grenades.

United States Marine Corps works with Nueces County to improve infrastructure for the community from June 19 to June 30, 2022.

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Jakob Schulz, 9th Engineer Support Battalion explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) section leader, digs inside a unit during a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery mission in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Sept. 23, 2022. EOD is responsible for locating any unexploded ordnance that may be found while excavating new dig sites. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

060420-N-6031Q-004. Base: USS Oriskany (CVA 34)

050620-A-6108G-641. Base: Erbil Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: ACoE

Iraq, Kirkuk province, Bashir village on 2022-10-19. Report on explosive remnants of war in Iraq, one of the most contaminated countries in the world after forty years of conflict, instability and especially the recent occupation of the country by the Islamic State group, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention prohibiting the acquisition, production, stockpiling and use of mines. This is Handicap International's (Humanity and Inclusion) mine clearance training camp in the village of Bashir where mine clearers practice in real conditions. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Kirkouk, Bashir village le 2022-10-19. Reportage sur les restes explosifs de guerre en Irak, lun des pays les plus contamines au monde suite a quarante ans de conflits, dinstabilité et surtout par loccupation recente du pays par le groupe Etat islamique, a l'occasion des 25 ans du Traite d'Ottawa, la Convention sur linterdiction des mines

US Army (USA) Soldiers set up Camouflaged nets over living facility tents at North Field, on the Island of Tinian, during Exercise TANDEM TRHUST 99. Subject Operation/Series: TANDEM THRUST 99 Base: North Field, Tinian Island Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP)

960613-F-2907C-014. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Mostar Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Miscellaneous - Katrina and Rita - 26-HK-431-142. Hurricane Katrina

060213-A-6311S-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mahmudiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2ND BTL. 4TH BRG. 6TH DIV

030215-M-4419R-008. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

Students scavenge the post-blast scene for evidence and clues as to the cause of the explosion Sept. 28 on the Eglin Air Force Base range. The investigation was part of the FBI's large vehicle post blast school attended by state and local law enforcement agencies as well as Navy and Air Force explosive ordnance disposal technicians. Three vehicles were blown up to create the crime scenes that students would investigate. The week-long course was the second held on Eglin with 67 students representing 18 different U.S. agencies.

Russian Sokol flight suits of Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and South Korean spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi are seen laying on the ground shortly after their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft landed in central Kazakhstan, Friday, April 19, 2008, to complete 192 days in space for Whitson and Malenchenko and 11 days in orbit for Yi.

Members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team work at a recovery site in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Oct. 3, 2022. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team work at a recovery site in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Oct. 3, 2022. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

040328-M-5753Q-071. Base: Haqlaniyah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030519-M-5882G-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Hillah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

The Utah National Guard FEMA Region VIII Homeland Response Force held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Collapsed Structure Venue Site May 10, 2022. The CSVS is one of only three military owned Urban Search and Rescue training venues west of the Rocky Mountains. This CSVS will allow both military search and extract and civilian search and rescue teams the opportunity to train together and build those necessary partnerships needed in an all hazards response.

Teammates camouflaged behind a car in the middle of a war

050703-A-1906W-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

Lance CPL. Jerome I. Cone, Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS), 374th Utilities, 3rd Marine Air Wing, 1ST Marine Expeditionary Force, hometown Baltimore, MD, fills a water bladder with water from the Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit on Red Beach. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ '97 Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - CGC Harry Claiborne - Operation Gator Hunt - 26-HK-312-7. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. service members with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), conduct a casualty evacuation drill in Santa Fe National Park, Panama, Sept. 7, 2022. DPAA will be conducting recovery operations in Panama in hopes of finding missing naval aircrew members lost during a training flight in 1985. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Lance Wu, Assistant Air Attache United States Defense Attaché Office-Beijing, China, screens dirt from a test pit during a site survey in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), Jan. 9, 2024. Test pits are used during surveys to test soil types and to see how deep possible aircraft wreckage can be found. Approximately690 unaccounted-for American personnel from World War II are believed to be located within modern-day PRC.

Katrina - General - 26-HK-402-34. Hurricane Katrina

041228-M-0036Y-031. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Special forces operator rappelling with weapons during an assault.

Explosive devices are identified and inventoried before being destroyed

A water filtration system assigned to the U.S. Army 58th Troop Command was set up at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. on Oct. 17, 2022. Shower, Laundry, and Clothing Repair Specialists are primarily responsible for supervising and performing laundry, shower, personnel and clothing decontamination functions. These capabilities are essential to the health and welfare of soldiers in training or deployed environments. Good hygiene is required by all who are subject to the laws and regulations defined by the UCMJ in order to prevent the spread of disease that may compromise mission success.

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - CGC Harry Claiborne - Operation Gator Hunt - 26-HK-312-12. Hurricane Katrina

A view of a section of the wall that surrounds the Joint Task Force Somalia headquarters. The headquarters was established in the former U.S. Embassy compound during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

030319-M-8539K-008. Base: Camp Matilda Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Mar Div

041113-M-1250B-025. Base: Lutafiyah State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DM-ST-86-07499. Base: Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

020723-A-3497H-013. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Narizah Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

POHNPEI, Federated States of Micronesia (May 7, 2019) Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, Construction Civic Action Detail, Federated States of Micronesia (CCAD FSM), excavate soil for concrete footers during the construction of the new Nan U Medical Dispensary in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, May 7, 2019. The United States has been sending CCAD Teams to the FSM for decades to continue strengthening the enduring friendship and lasting partnership between the two countries. NMCB 4, provides expeditionary construction and engineering capabilities that includes maintenance and operation of expeditionary bases and facilities, tactical sustainment bridging, humanitarian assistance through construction civic action details and civic action teams and theater disaster response capabilities in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

A line of 96th Force Support Squadron Airmen look for simulated debris during a major accident response exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Aug. 25. The squadrons mortuary affairs division exercised clean up and recovery procedures over the area of a simulated plane crash. Airmen formed a line and walked the area reporting, tagging and securing any item related to the accident. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

WHITE BEACH, Japan (Feb. 29, 2024) A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force service member clears jungle growth as part of the Jungle Attack community relations project, conducted annually by U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force volunteers to maintain access to ancestral tombs and other sacred sites on White Beach Naval Facility. Navy

040319-M-5150A-017. Base: Al Asad Air Base State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

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