TRAINING
EOD candidates will receive Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders to Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal (NAVSCOLEOD), Eglin Air Force Base, Ft Walton Beach, Florida with TEMDUINST in route to Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center (NDSTC) Panama City, Florida.
A total of approx. 12 months of rigorous training begins with nine weeks of dive training at NDSTC. Students receive training in diving physics, medicine, SCUBA, MK16 mixed gas diving system, Hyperbaric chamber operation, familiarization of the MK21 Superlight surface supplied hard hat diving system, rubber raiding craft small boat operation and small team diving integration.
Upon successful completion of dive school, students transfer to the NAVSCOLEOD facility at Eglin AFB. Training in Eglin is 41 weeks, consisting of core classes, demolition of explosives, EOD tools and methods, chemical munitions and EOD publications.
The final phase of basic EOD training continues at NAVSCOLEOD, Eglin AFB Florida. Training is broken down into specific types of ordnance. Each division teaches an in depth course on both foreign and domestic weapons. These divisions are broken down into the following:
• Ground Ordnance. Covers Landmines, grenades, booby traps and projected munitions (projectiles, mortars and rockets).
•Air Ordnance. Bombs, missiles, egress systems, gun systems and aircraft explosive hazards.
•Improvised Explosive Devices. Homemade bombs, terrorist devices and their render safe procedures.
•Underwater Ordnance. Torpedoes, mines, underwater explosive devices, search techniques and foreign ordnance exploitation.
•Nuclear Weapons. Basic nuclear physics and radiation monitoring, decontamination procedures and nuclear weapon render safe procedures.
FOLLOW ON TRAINING
Once stationed at an EOD Mobile Unit the EOD technician has opportunities to advance their training through a variety of military schools applicable to the EOD field including:
•Helo-Rope Suspension Training (HRST)
•Basic parachute training and parachute water insertion training.
•Advanced Access and Disablement
•Jumpmaster training
•Small unit tactics
•Small Arms Instructor
•Language School (DLI)
•EOD Communications (tactical radio communications)
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