page_title: Explosive ordnance disposal (United States Navy)
section_title: Training
hierarchical_section_title: Explosive ordnance disposal (United States Navy) / Training
caption_attribution_description: English: 020124-N-5686B-002 Talofofo, Guam (June 24, 2002) -- A member of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Five (EODMU 5) jumps from a CH-46 "Sea Knight" helicopter during a static line parachute jump training exercise. U.S. Navy Photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Crystal Brooks. (RELEASED)
context_page_description: United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians render safe all types of ordnance, including improvised, chemical, biological, and nuclear. They perform land and underwater location, identification, render-safe, and recovery of foreign and domestic ordnance. They conduct demolition of hazardous munitions, pyrotechnics, and retrograde explosives using detonation and burning techniques. They forward deploy and fully integrate with the various Combatant Commanders, Special Operations Forces, and various warfare units within the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Army. They are also called upon to support military and civilian law enforcement agencies, as well as the Secret Service.
  EOD Technicians' missions take them to all environments, and every climate, in every part of the world. They have many assets available to arrive to their mission, from open- and closed-circuit scuba and surface supplied diving rigs, to parachute insertion from fixed-wing aircraft and fast-rope, abseil, and Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction from rotary aircraft, to small boats and tracked vehicles.
context_section_description: The EOD training pipeline starts with three weeks of preparatory training at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois. The candidate will work on swim stroke development, long range swims and physical conditioning. EOD candidates will then attend an additional 51 weeks of rigorous training. Their training starts with nine weeks of dive school held at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center (NDSTC) in Panama City, Florida. Besides learning how to dive, candidates learn about the various kinds of equipment and dive physics. After successful completion of dive school, candidates transfer to Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal School at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. This training is broken down into specific types of ordnance:
  Demolition Division
  Includes how to set up various explosive firing trains
  Tools & Methods Division
  Teaches you the various tools and methods of EOD work
  Core Division
  Teaches basic fundamentals of EOD work
  Ground Ordnance Division
  Focuses on projected munitions and grenades
  Air Ordnance Division
  Focuses on bombs and missiles
  Improvised Explosive Device
  Includes "homemade bombs”
  Bio/Chem Division
  Includes lessons on various biological and chemical agents
  Nuclear Ordnance Division
  Covers basic nuclear physics and radiation monitoring and decontamination procedures
  Underwater Ordnance Division
  Emphasizes torpedoes and other underwater explosives as well as underwater search techniques
  Every section teaches how to render-safe or defuse ordnance.
  Upon completion of basic EOD training, some graduates will attend the three-week Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, Georgia where candidates qualify as a basic parachutist.
  After Jump School, training continues at Gulfport, Mississippi, for an additional four weeks, consisting of weapons training in the use of the 9mm handgun and the M-4 carbine as well as combat first aid.
  The final phase of EOD training is three weeks of EOD Tactical Training at the Naval Amphibious Base in San Diego. This will consist of helicopter insertion (fast-rope, rappel, cast and SPIE), small arms/weapons training, small unit tactics (weapons, self-defense, land navigation, and patrolling), and tactical communications (satellite and high frequency). Upon completion of the EOD training, graduates are assigned to EOD Mobile Units where they gain advanced on-the-job training and experience as members of Combat Expeditionary Support (CES) platoons/companies, Carrier and Expeditionary Strike Group platoons, Naval Special Warfare and SOF Companies, and Marine Mammal Companies.
caption: Member of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Five jumps from a CH-46 using a MC1-1C parachute
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