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5 unusual facts about Bomb disposal


Bomb disposal

Wartime errors were rectified in 1947 when Army personnel started attending a new school at Indian Head, Maryland, under U.S. Navy direction.

The Hurt Locker, a 2009 film about U.S. Army bomb-disposal experts in Iraq.

Such charges can easily destroy light vehicles such as the Humvee, and large ones can even destroy main battle tanks.

Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk

The Iraq trials were so successful that the U.S. Navy placed a surprise order for 372 MAVs, designated RQ-16A T-Hawk, in January 2008 for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams.

M9 bayonet

The M11 bayonet, or M11 EOD is a version of the M9 specialized for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD).


Schenectady Armory

The 206th Military Police Company, which had been based there, moved to a new facility in Latham, and the other tenant, the 501st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, moved to the new Scotia Armed Forces Reserve Center at the Schenectady County Airport.


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Brendan Foley

Journalism ranged from features on bomb disposal in Angola, to the clean-up operations that followed the Exxon Valdez oil-spill in Alaska.

Little Holm, Yell Sound

In 1983, the Royal Navy cleared ordnance from the area, and their bomb disposal team discovered an unrecorded shipwreck nearby.

Philip McGough

He appeared as Sergeant Calder, a member of the British Army's bomb disposal squad, in the 1984 Doctor Who story Resurrection of the Daleks.