U.S. Army and British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling abilities on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. American Troopers from the 722nd Ordnance Firm (EOD) educated with British EOD troops from the 821st EOD and Search unit, July 11 – 21.
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U.S. Army and British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling abilities on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. American Troopers from the 722nd Ordnance Firm (EOD) educated with British EOD troops from the 821st EOD and Search unit, July 11 – 21.
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U.S. Army and British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling abilities on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. American Troopers from the 722nd Ordnance Firm (EOD) educated with British EOD troops from the 821st EOD and Search unit, July 11 – 21.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. – U.S. Army and British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling abilities on Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
American Troopers from the 722nd Ordnance Firm (EOD) educated with British EOD troops from the 821st EOD and Search unit, July 11 – 21.
The bilateral coaching occasion was supported by the Special Forces Operations Detachment-Alpha from third Special Forces Group, the one hundred and thirty fifth Common Help Aviation Battalion and the U.S. Air Power’s 14th Air Help Operations Squadron.
The 722nd EOD Firm is a part of the Fort Bragg, North Carolina-based 192nd EOD Battalion, 52nd EOD Group and twentieth Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, the U.S. Division of Protection’s premier deployable all hazards formation.
Troopers and U.S. Army civilians from the twentieth CBRNE Command deploy from 19 bases in 16 states to tackle the world’s most harmful hazards in assist of joint, interagency and allied operations.
U.S. Army and British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling abilities on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. American Troopers from the 722nd Ordnance Firm (EOD) educated with British EOD troops from the 821st EOD and Search unit, July 11 – 21.
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U.S. Army EOD corporations on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, assist the XVIII Airborne Corps and 82nd Airborne Division on the U.S. Army’s Fast Response Power.
In response to 1st Sgt. Rob Crull, the senior enlisted chief of the 722nd EOD Firm, the coaching coated all kinds of eventualities that EOD troops may face on the battlefield.
Crull mentioned the coaching occasions included a complicated rifle marksmanship vary, an EOD abilities day, a mass casualty state of affairs, a downed plane state of affairs, a minefield strike, a multi-ordnance state of affairs with reside ordnance, a safety state of affairs and an evening UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter raid into an enemy compound with an explosive cache and do-it-yourself explosive laboratory.
“The spotlight of the coaching was with the ability to perceive our variations and plugging them into our formation to organize for a contingency that we could must activity set up collectively to satisfy mission intent within the subsequent battle,” mentioned Crull. “They’re constructing a program much like ours to which a whole lot of what we showcased they’re going to have the ability to take again to the UK to pave the best way for Airborne EOD into the Airborne Brigade they’re assigned to.”
U.S. Army and British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling abilities on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. American Troopers from the 722nd Ordnance Firm (EOD) educated with British EOD troops from the 821st EOD and Search unit, July 11 – 21.
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The EOD technicians additionally held a cultural day on the native Airborne and Particular Operations Museum and mentioned the historical past of airborne operations.
The 722nd EOD Firm was activated final 12 months for the Afghanistan evacuation and the corporate was marshalled to carry out an airborne assault.
Throughout his 19 years within the U.S. Army, Crull has deployed 13 instances and he has served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Among the U.S. Army EOD Troopers concerned within the coaching occasion have beforehand served with British troops in Afghanistan.
Crull mentioned the coaching occasion gave the American and British troops the possibility to coach like they’d struggle – in a mixed and joint pressure.
“This elevated interoperability to organize for any contingency the place the U.S. and its allies could discover themselves on the identical battlefield,” mentioned Crull. “Understanding one another’s similarities and variations helped both sides grasp an understanding of how we’d finest make the most of one another based mostly on our strengths on the identical battlefield.”
