North Carolina National Guard Army 1st Lt. Lindsey Blare of the 430th EOD places ordnance in a blast crater at Range 4D on Fort Pickett, Va., during this year's annual training exercise recently. During the unit’s annual training, more than a dozen of their unit’s bomb technicians practiced building and igniting "shots" using a variety of munitions during training at Range 4D on Fort Pickett. The 430th’s soldiers conducted hands-on classes in the basics of demolition, using percussion actuated neutralizers, modular demolition initiators, timed fuses, blasting caps and small arms and mortar rounds.