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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Cole Carroll, 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal craftsman, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, sweeps an area with a mine detector during Northern Challenge 16 exercise at Icelandic Coast Guard Keflavik Facility, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. The exercise focused on disabling improvised explosive devices in support of counter-terrorism tactics to prepare Partnership for Peace, NATO, and Nordic nations for international deployments and defense against terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)Northern Challenge 16
                        
                        
                        Staff Sgt. Cole Carroll, a 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal craftsman from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, sweeps an area with a mine detector during exercise Northern Challenge 16 in Keflavik, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. The exercise focused on disabling improvised explosive devices in support of counterterrorism tactics to prepare Partnership for Peace, NATO and Nordic nations for international deployments and defense against terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)
                
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        U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Cole Carroll, front, and Senior Airman Vincent Miller, 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal craftsmen, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, prepare a device designed to defeat an improvised explosive device during the Northern Challenge 16 exercise at Icelandic Coast Guard Keflavik Facility, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. The exercise focused on disabling IEDs in support of counter-terrorism tactics to prepare Partnership for Peace, NATO, and Nordic nations for international deployments and defense against terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)Northern Challenge 16
                        
                        
                        Staff Sgt. Cole Carroll, front, and Senior Airman Vincent Miller, both 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal craftsmen from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, prepare a device designed to defeat an improvised explosive device during exercise Northern Challenge 16 in Keflavik, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. The exercise focused on disabling IEDs in support of counterterrorism tactics to prepare Partnership for Peace, NATO and Nordic nations for international deployments and defense against terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)
                
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        An improvised explosive device is detonated during the Northern Challenge 16 exercise at Icelandic Coast Guard Keflavik Facility, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. The exercise focused on disabling IEDs in support of counter-terrorism tactics to prepare Partnership for Peace, NATO, and Nordic nations for international deployments and defense against terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)Northern Challenge 16
                        
                        
                        An improvised explosive device is detonated during exercise Northern Challenge 16 in Keflavik, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. The exercise focused on disabling IEDs in support of counterterrorism tactics to prepare Partnership for Peace, NATO and Nordic nations for international deployments and defense against terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)
                
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        U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal unit, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, talk with a German military observer during the Northern Challenge 16 exercise at Icelandic Coast Guard Keflavik Facility, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. During the exercise, 52nd EOD Airmen worked side by side with counterparts from allied and partner nations to become familiar with each other's military procedures and achieve greater interoperability in combating terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)Northern Challenge 16
                        
                        
                        U.S. Air Force Airmen, assigned to the 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, talk with a German military observer during exercise Northern Challenge 16 in Keflavik, Iceland, Sept. 19, 2016. During the exercise, 52nd CES EOD Airmen worked side by side with counterparts from allied and partner nations to become familiar with each other's military procedures and achieve greater interoperability in combating terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)
                
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Iceland hosts Northern Challenge for EOD communityPublished Sept. 27, 2016
                    
                    By Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder
                    
                    
                    52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs
            **KEFLAVIK, Iceland (AFNS) --**Airmen from the 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, participated in exercise Northern Challenge 2016, which began here Sept. 12.Northern Challenge 16 is an Icelandic-hosted, multinational, counter-improvised explosive device exercise in support of NATO’s Defense Against Terrorism program. The exercise focused on disabling improvised explosive devices in support of counterterrorism tactics to prepare countries enrolled in NATO’s Partnership for Peace program for international deployments and defense against terrorism.“Northern Challenge is an EOD focused exercise,” said Lt. Marvin Ingólfsson, an Icelandic Coast Guard member and the exercise director. “We rebuild devices found around the world from the past few years and use them to try and make the environment as realistic as possible.”This year’s participating nations included Iceland, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands and the U.S.“With all these partner nations working together to defeat a common network, you really get the advantage of different points of view, which will help each other improve tactics, techniques and procedures,” said Capt. Kyle Fuller, the 31st CES EOD Flight commander from Aviano AB, Italy.  Although the training exercise is not associated with, or a reaction to, any real-world events, it’s designed to subject its multicultural participants to realistic EOD-related challenges that they must face together. The goal of the exercise was for participating Partnership for Peace program members to become familiar with each other's military procedures, which will improve interoperability and combined counter-terrorism efforts.USAFE 



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