Inside the Army’s new training program for special operations bomb techs
"It's one of the best programs I've seen in my 17 years in EOD."
By Geoff Byrne April 21, 2021
After scanning the doorway ahead, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) tech dropped to his knees and brought his attention to the loose brown soil in front of him now blurred by out-of-focus night vision goggles. A quick adjustment to the PVS-15s brought the details of the foreground back into a crisp resolution, the pitch dark of the night illuminated in a green hue.
“Hurry up EOD,†whispered a Special Forces sergeant standing just off to the side, his infrared laser trained on the doorway.
No time for a metal detector, the EOD team leader, a 30-year-old staff sergeant from Killeen, Texas, ran his gloved hands through the surface layer of dirt, searching for IEDs. With each sweep forward dropping an infrared chem light behind him, marking the clear path.
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