High Threat IEDD Exercise, Northern Challenge 23: A First for the 26MEU(SOC) and the U.S. Marine Corps

KEFLAVIK, ICELAND – U.S. Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) operators from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (26MEU(SOC)) participated in Exercise Northern Challenge 2023 alongside various NATO Allies and partners, Sept. 21 to Oct. 5. Northern Challenge Read More …

IAEA Training Centre for Nuclear Security Opens Doors to Build Expertise in Countering Nuclear Terrorism

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened today a unique nuclear security training centre, the first international facility of its type, to support the growing efforts to tackle global nuclear terrorism. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi officially opened the Read More …

U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs train with Senegalese Armed Forces troops

U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs returned home to Fort Leonard, Missouri, following a three-month training session with Senegalese Armed Forces EOD troops in Dakar, Senegal. Soldiers from the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD) recently conducted new equipment and counter Improvised Read More …

Chair of the NATO Military Committee visits Egypt

From 23 to 25 September 2023, the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, visited Egypt upon the invitation of General Mohamed Zaki, Commander-In-Chief Of The Armed Forces, Minister Of Defense And Military Production. In Cairo, Admiral Bauer Read More …

Cambodia: 14-nation ‘Pure Homeland’ mine drill concludes

Cambodia concluded the first international humanitarian mine action exercise themed “Pure Homeland 2023” conducted within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers-Plus on Friday. The first-of-its-kind multinational exercise, that began on September 13 at the Multinational Peacekeeping Force Training School Read More …

Ukraine: Training to clear the world’s most heavily mined country

Specialist British military bomb disposal teams are training Ukrainian engineers to clear Russian minefields. Ukraine is now the most heavily mined country in the world, and it’s slowing down Ukrainian military advances. The training by British Army sappers – combat Read More …

NATO launches large CBRN exercise ‘Toxic Trip 2023’ on Koksijde airbase

The Koksijde air base in West Flanders, Belgium, is hosting a significant NATO chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defence exercise called “Toxic Trip 2023” from September 23 to September 29. The exercise involves approximately 600 military personnel from 18 Read More …

EOD training simulating deployment grows in its second year

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.— Some of the Air Force’s most dangerous missions are undertaken by Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squads regardless of the hostilities and hazards of an unpredictable environment. Dangerous and ever evolving threats to people and property Read More …

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force EOD put training to the test in Nauru

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Constable Armstrong Regoso and Staff Sergeant Ansa Puaraua recently travelled to Nauru with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) on Operation Render Safe to conduct reconnaissance and survey reported explosive remnants of war. This was Read More …

Premier US Army CBRNE Command refines skills at exercise on Dugway Proving Ground

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah – Highly specialized units from the U.S. military’s premier Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) command refined their sampling and reconnaissance techniques during an exercise on Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, in August. American Soldiers and U.S. Read More …

United States Partners with the Ministry of Interior to Enhance Regional Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Emergencies.

Nairobi, September 18, 2023 – The United States partnered with the Ministry of Interior and National Administration to enhance regional preparedness for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) emergencies through a multi-country workshop on September 13 and 14 in Naivasha. Read More …

India: ISIS using travelling trainers to teach IED-making in states

Terror organisation Islamic State (ISIS) has switched to a new tactic of recruiting “roaming trainers” to make improvised explosive device (IED). The trainers shift base continuously and impart explosive-making training to sleeper cells in different states. Questioning of arrested ISIS Read More …

US Army Airborne EOD techs hone skills during international parachute competition

For a group of American Soldiers who jump out of airplanes and defuse bombs for their nation, X marks the spot. Eight Airborne Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers from the 192nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD) competed against U.S. and international airborne troops Read More …

Cambodia hosts first multilateral operational training exercise on mine clearance

Cambodia is hosting the first multinational operational exercise at the Humanitarian Mine Action Field within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus under the theme “Pure Homeland-2023”. The first-of-its-kind multinational event, which will last for 10 days, began on Read More …

US trains Bangladesh Police in preventing WMD terrorism

The US Department of State’s Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, along with partners from CRDF Global and Thin Blue Line, International, trained Bangladesh Police officials on investigative skills to counter chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive terrorism from Read More …

China helps train international experts in clearing land mines

Forty people from the armed forces in Cambodia and Laos completed a three-month training session on mine-clearing skills on Friday. The training, including the use of the latest mine-clearing technologies, will keep mine-clearing forces in their countries safe and enable Read More …

Romania and US to conduct exercises with Ukraine in Black Sea and Danube Delta

The Romanian and US navies are organising Sea Breeze 23.3, a multinational exercise that will take place from 11 to 15 September in the Black Sea and Danube Delta. Military personnel from Bulgaria, France, the United Kingdom, Türkiye and Ukraine Read More …

Nerves of Steel: 2023 Air Force Explosive Ordnance Team of the Year

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technicians undertake some of the Air Force’s most dangerous missions – mitigating the hazards of explosive materials and other weapons. Air Force EOD teams from around the world brought their nerves of steel to Little Rock, Read More …

EMF 150 Alpha hosts CBRN Training Teams aboard Camp Pendleton

Marines and Sailors assigned to Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) 150 Alpha, EMF 150 Bravo, EMF 150 Kilo, EMF Camp Pendleton, 1st Medical Battalion, and Combat Logistics Regiment 17 (CLR-17), attended chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) training aboard Marine Corps Read More …

Joint-Service EOD Training: Operation Solar Flare

ALI AL SALEM AIR BASE, Kuwait — U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians from across Kuwait completed a large-scale detonation during Operation Solar Flare at Udairi Range, Kuwait, Aug. 24, 2023. Solar Flare is Read More …