Sustainment soldiers participate in first Ammunition Inspectors Course on Fort Hood

FORWARD OPERATING BASE ARIAN, Afghanistan – For Mohammad Dawood, a 35-year-old Afghan soldier, lessons in automotive maintenance feed a passion he has held since he was a boy.Click here to read more.

Afghan soldiers learn preventive maintenance

FORWARD OPERATING BASE ARIAN, Afghanistan – For Mohammad Dawood, a 35-year-old Afghan soldier, lessons in automotive maintenance feed a passion he has held since he was a boy. Click here to read more.

242nd EOD hosts Team Leader Training Academy

FORT CARSON, Colo. – Explosive ordnance disposal specialists from Army posts across the U.S. honed their tactical abilities and doctrinal knowledge at Fort Carson, April 11-18, during the EOD Team Leader Training Academy. Click here to read more.

Sharing the Ordnance story

FORT LEE, Va. -- About 30 area business leaders got the opportunity April 19 to learn firsthand about the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps' mission. Members of the Association of the United States Army, who participated in this inaugural community event for the Ordnance School, spoke with instructors and got a rare glimpse behind-the-scenes... Click here to read more.

The EOD mission: beyond the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The field of explosive ordnance disposal has been in the spotlight for the past decade due to our nation’s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and partly due to Hollywood’s portrayal of an EOD team in the 2008 movie “The Hurt Locker.” Talk to any soldier who has deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn or Operation Enduring Freedom, and the majority of them will have an experience that somehow relates to the field of EOD. Even though the field is small (less than 1 percent of the total Army), the EOD story is one that many soldiers know about or can somehow relate to. This demonstrates the importance of the EOD role and highlights the main responsibility: the mitigation of conventional and unconventional explosive devices in order to protect life and property for both military and civilian authorities. The importance of the EOD mission has become blatantly apparent in the last decade; however, it is crucial to remember that the role of EOD expands past the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan.Click here to read more.