Explosive Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.) - The Big Picture
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ARC Identifier 2569854 / Local Identifier 111-TV-666
Big Picture: Explosive Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.)
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). This film examines the dangers and uncertainties involved in the disposal of explosive devices of all kinds by military men. Scenes take the viewer from training in Indianhead, Maryland, where students were thoroughly schooled in explosives--what they were, what they were made of, and how they worked--to on-location ordnance disposal.
I was a private security guard at a decommissioned RAF depot in the UK, on my 'training' tour (basically a drive around the various plots) I asked what were the little red flags sticking up everywhere in the surrounding countryside.....'oh just old bombs they haven't got round to yet'.....and the red and white flags....'oh just mustard gas shells if you see any white clouds let someone know'......
This brought back nice memories
Indian Head 1981-1982
Doing training area clean-ups at Ft. Meade(picking up trash blown in from all parts of the outside as well as dumpsters on Post) we found a LOT of UXO including .50 cal rounds still in ammo boxes IN crates as well as live 75 mm rounds from back in WW-1 just yards from the rights-of-way for high-tension power lines going through. How they weren't found is a miracle. There are(or were) areas still off-limits due to contamination from mustard gas training from WW-1...certainly there were areas heavily fenced off back in the late 70's. What else was out in the old unmarked impact areas---who knows. EOD was out there all the time back then.
A mate had his house built on an old artillery range. The range had been carefully cleaned of any ordinance, and deemed safe to build on, but one caveat was that home owners were not allowed to dig any deeper than 1 foot (300mm) without getting permission first, just in case. 30 years later, and no issues occurred, but the caveat is still in place.
A wise caveat to have 👍
Searching for any former members of the 144th E.O.D., Fort Meade, MD, from 1991MAY to FEB1995. Thank You, SGT David B. Bailey (55D).
Just stumbled upon this. I was the Ops Officer / XO up at the 542nd when we took over after the 546th deactivated. I seem to remember the name Bailey.
I also commanded the 62d at Ft Douglas and worked in EUCOM / USAREUR as the EOD Staff Officer, great times. I still have one of the old tool boxes in this clip.
@MstrMono Troops brought trophies from war home all the time, troops weren't all the brightest of the bunch to check if it was a live explosive or not
When I was at Indianhead, we didn't have anyone as old as the captain 'student' in this video. Also, he didn't buddy-tab that tape when he was BIPing that UXO at 13 minutes in...not cool dude. He is also not putting the bang in the best place for that...
Some good memories though:)
Retired Army EOD graduated from Indian Head 1996
Training rounds; they don't always go off when fired.
Seems like yesterday when I was daisy chaining claymores running det cord for c4,down at fl leonard wood Missouri. But it was many moons ago.Springtime,1998...62echo....I made it
During WW1, WW2, and Vietnam, most of the Southern United States was a military training area. Over the years the military moved out of the areas and consolidated on military bases. When they left, they left UXO buried in the ground. Not necessarily on purpose.
easy. they were fired back in the time during war. These soldiers had to train somewhere with live munitions. Im a unexploded ordnance technician so Im one of the guys that locate these items and get rid of them in a safe manner. We have many many here in the hawaiian islands. The marines trained here before shipping off to Tarawa Japan, since the terrain here mimicked to the terrain in Tarawa. So to answer you, the military fired it here for practice with live rounds.
11:27 Is that a 4,000 pound bomb behind the group?
OMG! It's a nuclear chemical weapon.
At 7:46....Better Call Saul!
Fired as practice and buried or brought home by solders and relic hunters.
Render safe is easy. Disconnect the red and blue wires and touch them together.
cybermarsactual 😂
Unexploded ammo is everywhere due to military test ranges, training grounds and ammo dumps.
"Almost every day of the week" wut??
at about 23 minutes in he starts listing all the ordinance regularly dealt with by an EOD team. My question is how the fuck did a 155mm howitzer shell and rockets and the such become a problem on us soil? there hasnt been a war on us soil since before the cartridge was invented. Where the fuck did these appear from? Britan, germany, anywhere in europe or africa or asia i get it. But not continental america.
Anyone able to explain how tonnes of military ordinance becomes an issue like that?
Simple answer: Soldiers. they take it home as a trophy. Up here in Canada you would think that us canucks could never have to face such items on home soil ever......but it happens. I forget how many years ago but a military equipment collector bought an 81mm mortar 'Demolition' round for a projectile collection at a gun show. It had a strange habit of weeping at a small patch of rust a substance similar to liquid beeswax on hot days and when the sun shined on it through the window. He decided to call the army EOD after something like 10 years and they came out and everything got super quiet when they examined the round. It was live and the explosive had started breaking down and was sweating out its beeswax binder.
Ordnance, the other is merely a hindrance from some bureaucrat.....
witch fingers lol
I don't know if this is completely stupid but would it be worth throwing a grenade in there to trigger any other explosives?
Completely stupid. Sorry dude.
yeah, I didn't fully watch the video, understandable now.
No worries. After several years dealing with this sorta thing it wouldnt go critical but would be a horrible idea at best.
yeah, i have heard a few stories of people i know dealing with explosives and its really interesting.
Hi bom guy. You will appreciate the stupidity of my uncle during ww2. This took place in North Africa when australian forces had captured Italian positions. He took several cases of hand grenades (from a captured Italian ammunition dump), climbed up a cliff above the ammunition & started throwing the grenades back into the dump!!!
Black powder.
>>----------------------> Glad they're here. I could never do this job.
Ahhh-properly starched santeens(Greens) uniforms.......so sharp you can cut yourself.......ooooh rahhhhh!
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No paperwork just the dust trust karmer facts right black white and grey lines of sparks thanks bubba's hub dub waxes