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With only a few months in theater, the 447th Expeditionary

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With only a few months in theater, the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight attached to Multi-National Division – Baghdad helped collect 13,000 pounds of explosive weight. The team, deployed from the 99th Civil Engineer Squadron at Nellis AFB, Nev., is part of one of four three-person EOD teams that had a direct hand in destroying the cache.

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17/12/2008
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sather eod team destroys mega weapons cache
sather eod team destroys mega weapons cache
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