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Spc. Timothy Wolber from Milledgeville, Ill., armed

Spc. Timothy Wolber from Milledgeville, Ill., armed

Spc. Timothy Wolber from Milledgeville, Ill., armed with a metal detector, walks point during a route clearance foot patrol in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The 510th Route Clearance Company, 20th Engineer Battal... More

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction course listen

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction course listen

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction course listen to course instruction at the Joint Security Academy Southwest in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. These soldiers are learning how IEDs work, the threats th... More

As U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Jones, explosive

As U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Jones, explosive

As U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Jones, explosive ordnance disposalman, dumps gravel to form the mounted portion of the counter improvised explosive device training lane on Combat Outpost Qaisar, U.S. ... More

Navy EOD technicians speak with Afghans

Navy EOD technicians speak with Afghans

During a dismounted patrol through the village of Chil Gazy, U.S. Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal technicians speak to Afghans of all ages along with soldiers from A Battery, 1st Battalion, 84th Field Artille... More

ANA conducts international immersion at training center

ANA conducts international immersion at training center

A group of Afghan National Army counter-improvised explosive device soldiers accompany a static display which includes various forms of explosive casings at Kabul Military Training Center, Afghanistan, Sept. 6.... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with 4th Kandak, 1st

An Afghan National Army soldier with 4th Kandak, 1st

An Afghan National Army soldier with 4th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps Route Clearance Platoon practices sweeping with a metal detector prior to crossing a man made bridge during counter improvised explosive... More

Staff Sgt. Kenneth Guinn (left) and Senior Airman Lee

Staff Sgt. Kenneth Guinn (left) and Senior Airman Lee

Staff Sgt. Kenneth Guinn (left) and Senior Airman Lee Mclean, 966th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight Operating Location-Bravo partnership team, prepare an inert improvised explosive device for practice operat... More

Col. John Shafer, commanding officer, Regimental Combat

Col. John Shafer, commanding officer, Regimental Combat

Col. John Shafer, commanding officer, Regimental Combat Team 6, congratulates a soldier with 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, Afghan National Army, for completing the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Instructor cou... More

Afghan National Army Staff Sgt. Gulbuddin, explosive

Afghan National Army Staff Sgt. Gulbuddin, explosive

Afghan National Army Staff Sgt. Gulbuddin, explosive ordnance disposal technician, Route Clearance Tolay, 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps works on disrupting and disabling a mock improvised explosive device, April 16,... More

Hometown news release: Maj. Ryan Loomis

Hometown news release: Maj. Ryan Loomis

Cheyenne, Wyo.,native, Maj. Ryan Loomis, receives a bronze star for accomplishments on his most recent deployment to Afghanistan as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer. During this deployment, Loomis receive... More

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students from the Afghanistan National Civil Order Police with the components of a counter-improvised explosive device robot as a part of a robot repair course given... More

A student at the explosive hazard reduction course

A student at the explosive hazard reduction course

A student at the explosive hazard reduction course practices use of a detector in searching for an search of an IED during an exercise. The EHRC here now has two Afghan National Security Force instructors who a... More

Afghan National Army soldiers discuss how to defeat

Afghan National Army soldiers discuss how to defeat

Afghan National Army soldiers discuss how to defeat a training improvised explosive device during a session held by the 704th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company. The training is meant to improve the skills of ... More

Afghan National Army soldiers discuss how to defeat

Afghan National Army soldiers discuss how to defeat

Afghan National Army soldiers discuss how to defeat a training improvised explosive device during a session held by the 704th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company. The training is meant to improve the skills of ... More

An Afghan National Army soldier participates in a training

An Afghan National Army soldier participates in a training

An Afghan National Army soldier participates in a training exercise as a part of the Explosive Hazard Reduction Course at Camp Leatherneck. The Afghan National Security Forces have taken the lead in running and... More

Students at the Bagram Air Field Counter Radio-controlled

Students at the Bagram Air Field Counter Radio-controlled

Students at the Bagram Air Field Counter Radio-controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Course practice operation of their CREW devices during a hands-on portion of the class. The CREW course t... More

Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog,

Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog,

Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog, stands next to his handler, Lance Cpl. Stephen Mader, at Combat Outpost Paserlay, July 26, 2012. Mader, with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team... More

An Afghan National Army soldier receives his graduation

An Afghan National Army soldier receives his graduation

An Afghan National Army soldier receives his graduation certificate from the Improvised Explosive Device Mitigation Team training here, Wednesday. IMT training instructs members of the Afghan National Security ... More

An ANA soldier suites up for counter IED training at

An ANA soldier suites up for counter IED training at

An ANA soldier suites up for counter IED training at the Guardez Regional Military Training Center Nov. 5. The RMTC in Gardez trains ANA soldiers in specific skill sets such as counter IED, specialized weapons ... More

Soldiers from the 203rd Corps, Afghan National Army,

Soldiers from the 203rd Corps, Afghan National Army,

Soldiers from the 203rd Corps, Afghan National Army, conduct counter improvised explosive device measures while utilizing mine detectors during an ANA-led conter IED course at Camp Parsa, Afghanistan, Nov. 20, ... More

Staff Sgt. Mathhew Phillips, an infantryman dog handler

Staff Sgt. Mathhew Phillips, an infantryman dog handler

Staff Sgt. Mathhew Phillips, an infantryman dog handler assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team “Rakkasans,” 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), prepares to unleash Sgt. 1st Class Rocky to demonstrate the techni... More

A trip wire rests across a doorway during Counter Improvised

A trip wire rests across a doorway during Counter Improvised

A trip wire rests across a doorway during Counter Improvised Explosive Device (CIED) training at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, April 3, 2013. The training, taught by 2d Combat Engineer Battal... More

Afghan Border Police Sgt. Esrafel Khaksar is assisted

Afghan Border Police Sgt. Esrafel Khaksar is assisted

Afghan Border Police Sgt. Esrafel Khaksar is assisted by an expert explosives trainer with the International Security Assistance Force during the final hands-on evaluation of the explosive hazard removal course... More

An Afghan National Army commando engineer with the

An Afghan National Army commando engineer with the

An Afghan National Army commando engineer with the Headquarters Company, 6th Special Operations Kandak, demonstrates counter-improvised explosive device techniques in Kabul district, Kabul province, Afghanistan... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Lewis, an allied trade specialist

U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Lewis, an allied trade specialist

U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Lewis, an allied trade specialist with Bravo Company, 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, uses rebar to create a culvert denial syste... More

Afghan National Security Forces members study chemical

Afghan National Security Forces members study chemical

Afghan National Security Forces members study chemical samples used to make home made explosives during a Counter-Improvised Explosive Device training class in Parwan province, Afghanistan July 2.

International Security Assistance Force Joint Command

International Security Assistance Force Joint Command

International Security Assistance Force Joint Command Command Sgt. Maj. Scott Schroeder examines a kit used to test for materials used to manufacture the homemade explosives for improvised explosive devices dur... More

Afghan National Army Soldiers from the 205th Corps,

Afghan National Army Soldiers from the 205th Corps,

Afghan National Army Soldiers from the 205th Corps, 1st Kandak, and Afghan Uniform Police stand in formation before graduating from an Explosive Hazardous Reduction Course in Shah Wali Kot district, Kandahar pr... More

Equipping the coalition counter-IED fight

Equipping the coalition counter-IED fight

Combined Joint Task Force logistics members Yolanda Banks, foreground, and U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Gonzales, right, inventory counter-IED equipment that is being issued to British army Staff Sgt. Patrick Coleman... More

U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Strickland with Troop B (Bull

U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Strickland with Troop B (Bull

U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Strickland with Troop B (Bull Troop), 1st Squadron, Combined Task Force Dragoon, operates a Rapid Equipping Force Minotaur, Aug. 15, 2013 at Forward Operating Base Zangabad, Afghanistan. S... More

An Afghan Border Police member observes from the top

An Afghan Border Police member observes from the top

An Afghan Border Police member observes from the top of his vehicle for signs of an improvised explosive device before his convoy crosses a vulnerable point during road clearance course training at Kabul Milita... More

Combined Joint Task Force Paladin commander Col. Marue

Combined Joint Task Force Paladin commander Col. Marue

Combined Joint Task Force Paladin commander Col. Marue Quick greets Afghan National Army Maj. Gen. Amid Mohammad Jan Muslim as he arrives at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, for lunch with unit members. General ... More

Suiting up the CSM, US Army in Afghanistan photo

Suiting up the CSM, US Army in Afghanistan photo

Staff Sgt. Joshua Tygret, Sgt. 1st Class Henry St. Charles and Master Sgt. Mark West help 101st Airborne Division Command Sgt. Maj. Alonzo Smith don the 80-pound bomb suit used by explosive ordnance disposal te... More

Maj. Michael Ricciardi, an explosive ordnance disposal

Maj. Michael Ricciardi, an explosive ordnance disposal

Maj. Michael Ricciardi, an explosive ordnance disposal officer assigned to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command at Kaiserslautern, Germany, deployed to Afghanistan under the Worldwide Individual Augmentation Sy... More

Service to Army runs deep for Montana family

Service to Army runs deep for Montana family

(From left to right) Master Sgt. Dan L., Command Sgt. Maj. Lola M., and their son, Staff Sgt. Jaymes S. Skillman pause for a family photo during the WAREX 14-03 exercise here July 19. The Skillmans, from Helena... More

Mohammed Ferid, the lead explosive ordnance disposal

Mohammed Ferid, the lead explosive ordnance disposal

Mohammed Ferid, the lead explosive ordnance disposal and improvised explosive device defeat instructor at the Afghan National Police Central Training Center-Kabul, explains that IEDs cause the greatest losses f... More

U.S. Air Force Col. Donald Holloway, Resolute Support

U.S. Air Force Col. Donald Holloway, Resolute Support

U.S. Air Force Col. Donald Holloway, Resolute Support Advise and Assist Cell-Southwest team lead and ANA 215th Corps Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Zamin Hassan listen to the 215th Corps battle update brief for ... More

An Afghan National Army counter-IED instructor addresses

An Afghan National Army counter-IED instructor addresses

An Afghan National Army counter-IED instructor addresses a group of child protection officers and teachers from all 34 provinces converged in Kabul for a four-day seminar where they learned about the newest IED... More

Brig. Gen. Basir, the commandant of Central Training

Brig. Gen. Basir, the commandant of Central Training

Brig. Gen. Basir, the commandant of Central Training Center-Kabul, discusses explosive ordnance disposal training with Resolute Support personnel prior to a graduation ceremony of 38 Afghan National Police from... More

Afghan National Army soldiers with the 215th Corps

Afghan National Army soldiers with the 215th Corps

Afghan National Army soldiers with the 215th Corps prepare to tie demolition charges to a trunk line at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, May 10, 2017. More than 20 soldiers completed a demolition range as part of an... More

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest shows Afghan

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest shows Afghan

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest shows Afghan National Army soldiers with Engineer Kandak, 215th Corps controls and capabilities of the TALON-MK2 on an operational control unit at Camp Shorabak, Afghanis... More

A counter improvised explosive device instructor teaches

A counter improvised explosive device instructor teaches

A counter improvised explosive device instructor teaches proper route clearance procedures using a terrain model to Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, July 13, 2017. S... More

A counter improvised explosive device instructor teaches

A counter improvised explosive device instructor teaches

A counter improvised explosive device instructor teaches Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps proper minesweeping procedures at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Aug. 29, 2017. Approximately 70 engineer sol... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps sweeps

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps sweeps

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps sweeps for notional improvised explosive devices during a route clearance course at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2017. Approximately 40 engineer soldiers... More

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Cpt. Stephen

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Cpt. Stephen

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Cpt. Stephen Holden, the counter-IED advisor with the 202nd Police Advisory Team from Forward Operating Base Fenty, instructs members of the 202nd Zone Counter-IED Afgha... More

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps sweep

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps sweep

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps sweep for notional improvised explosive devices during a route clearance course at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2017. Led by U.S. advisors, the route cleara... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps prepares

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps prepares

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps prepares to tie a demolition charge to a trunk line at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Dec. 26, 2017. Approximately 20 engineer soldiers assigned to units throughout... More

A mechanical arm controlled by Cpl. Luis D. Rivera-Rivera

A mechanical arm controlled by Cpl. Luis D. Rivera-Rivera

A mechanical arm controlled by Cpl. Luis D. Rivera-Rivera from Ponce, Puerto Rico, is used to investigate a possible IED during a route clearance patrol in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The 510th Route Clearance ... More

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction course listen

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction course listen

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction course listen to course instruction at the Joint Security Academy Southwest in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. These soldiers are learning how IEDs work, the threats th... More

In order to create the new counter improvised explosive

In order to create the new counter improvised explosive

In order to create the new counter improvised explosive device training lane on Combat Outpost Qaisar, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Heber, explosive ordnance disposalman, removes a rock in order to... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with the 4th Kandak,

An Afghan National Army soldier with the 4th Kandak,

An Afghan National Army soldier with the 4th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps Route Clearance Platoon practices sweeping with a metal detector during counter improvised explosive device training here, Nov. 10. ... More

Senior Airman Lee Mclean (left) and Staff Sgt. Kenneth

Senior Airman Lee Mclean (left) and Staff Sgt. Kenneth

Senior Airman Lee Mclean (left) and Staff Sgt. Kenneth Guinn, 966th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight Operating Location-Bravo partnership team, prepare an inert improvised explosive device for practice operat... More

A soldier with 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, Afghan National

A soldier with 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, Afghan National

A soldier with 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, Afghan National Army, displays his certificate for completing the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Instructor Course at Forward Operating Base Delaram II, April 5, 20... More

Afghan National Army Sgt. Din Mohammad, explosive ordnance

Afghan National Army Sgt. Din Mohammad, explosive ordnance

Afghan National Army Sgt. Din Mohammad, explosive ordnance disposal technician, Route Clearance Tolay, 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, carefully unearths a mock improvised explosive device during EOD training, April ... More

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students from the Afghanistan National Civil Order Police with the components of a counter-improvised explosive device robot as a part of a robot repair course given... More

A student at the explosive hazard reduction course

A student at the explosive hazard reduction course

A student at the explosive hazard reduction course uncovers a practice improvised explosive device during an exercise. The EHRC here now has two Afghan National Security Force instructors who are taking a large... More

An Afghan National Army soldier searches for a training

An Afghan National Army soldier searches for a training

An Afghan National Army soldier searches for a training improvised explosive device during a session held by the 704th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company. The training is meant to improve the skills of the ANA... More

An Afghan National Army soldier searches for a training

An Afghan National Army soldier searches for a training

An Afghan National Army soldier searches for a training improvised explosive device during a session held by the 704th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company. The training is meant to improve the skills of the ANA... More

Students at the Bagram Air Field Counter Radio-controlled

Students at the Bagram Air Field Counter Radio-controlled

Students at the Bagram Air Field Counter Radio-controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Course practice operation of their CREW devices during a hands-on portion of the class. The CREW course t... More

Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog,

Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog,

Maxx, an improvised explosive device detector dog, rests at the feet of members of 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, during a convoy in southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 27, 2012.... More

An Afghan National Army soldier receives his graduation

An Afghan National Army soldier receives his graduation

An Afghan National Army soldier receives his graduation certificate from the Improvised Explosive Device Mitigation Team training here, Wednesday. IMT training instructs members of the Afghan National Security ... More

Over 700 Muslims attended sunrise services at the Mosque

Over 700 Muslims attended sunrise services at the Mosque

Over 700 Muslims attended sunrise services at the Mosque of Sayed Jamaludni Afghani on Bagram Air Field. This was the largest showing of adherents since the reopening of the mosque in three years ago. Commander... More

Soldiers from the 203rd Corps, Afghan National Army,

Soldiers from the 203rd Corps, Afghan National Army,

Soldiers from the 203rd Corps, Afghan National Army, learn how to properly deploy an anti-mine robot during an ANA-led conter IED course at Camp Parsa, Afghanistan, Nov. 20, 2012. The six-week counter IED cours... More

Staff Sgt. Mathhew Phillips, an infantryman dog handler

Staff Sgt. Mathhew Phillips, an infantryman dog handler

Staff Sgt. Mathhew Phillips, an infantryman dog handler assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team “Rakkasans,” 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), rewards Sgt. 1st Class Rocky with some play time after a successfu... More

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Joseph Chesna, a squad leader

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Joseph Chesna, a squad leader

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Joseph Chesna, a squad leader with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, climbs over a wall during Counter Improvised Explosive Device (CIED) training at Camp Leatherneck, Hel... More

Afghan Border Police Sgt. Esrafel Khaksar (left) and

Afghan Border Police Sgt. Esrafel Khaksar (left) and

Afghan Border Police Sgt. Esrafel Khaksar (left) and an expert explosives trainer with the International Security Assistance Force, wait for the signal to activate an explosive charge on a mock-improvised explo... More

An Afghan National Army commando engineer with the

An Afghan National Army commando engineer with the

An Afghan National Army commando engineer with the Headquarters Company, 6th Special Operations Kandak, demonstrates counter-improvised explosive device techniques in Kabul district, Kabul province, Afghanistan... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Lewis, an allied trade specialist

U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Lewis, an allied trade specialist

U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Lewis, an allied trade specialist with Bravo Company, 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, uses rebar to create a culvert denial syste... More

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Andrew Bullock, CJTF Paladin,

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Andrew Bullock, CJTF Paladin,

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Andrew Bullock, CJTF Paladin, explains a pressure plate trigger used to detonate improvised explosive devices during a counter-IED training session for Afghan National Security Forces in P... More

A Combined Joint Task Force Paladin-South explosives

A Combined Joint Task Force Paladin-South explosives

A Combined Joint Task Force Paladin-South explosives ordnance disposal technician demonstrates the use of the Minehound detection device for International Security Assistance Force Joint Command Command Sgt. Ma... More

An Afghan Uniform Policeman receives applause from

An Afghan Uniform Policeman receives applause from

An Afghan Uniform Policeman receives applause from guests during an Explosive Hazardous Reduction Course in Shah Wali Kot district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, July 23, 2013. Afghan National Army soldiers f... More

From left, Combined Joint Task Force Paladin commander

From left, Combined Joint Task Force Paladin commander

From left, Combined Joint Task Force Paladin commander Col. Marue Quick, 3rd Ordnance Battalion (EOD) commander Lt. Col. Frank Davis, 3rd OD (EOD) Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick Standley, 242nd OD (EOD) commander Lt... More

U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Strickland with Troop B (Bull

U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Strickland with Troop B (Bull

U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Strickland with Troop B (Bull Troop), 1st Squadron, Combined Task Force Dragoon, operates a Rapid Equipping Force Minotaur, Aug. 15, 2013 at Forward Operating Base Zangabad, Afghanistan. S... More

A two-member team from the Afghan Border Police conducts

A two-member team from the Afghan Border Police conducts

A two-member team from the Afghan Border Police conducts an area sweep with their handheld metal detector around a vulnerable area before their convoy can pass safely during road clearance course training at Ka... More

(From left) U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Harold Dunn,

(From left) U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Harold Dunn,

(From left) U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Harold Dunn, Col. Marue Quick and Lt. Col. Christopher Cox listen as Afghan National Army Maj. Gen. Amid Mohammad Jan Muslim talks with Combined Joint Task Force Paladin ... More

Maj. Michael Ricciardi, an explosive ordnance disposal

Maj. Michael Ricciardi, an explosive ordnance disposal

Maj. Michael Ricciardi, an explosive ordnance disposal officer assigned to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command at Kaiserslautern, Germany, deployed to Afghanistan under the Worldwide Individual Augmentation Sy... More

Afghan National Policeman Jan Ali explains that he

Afghan National Policeman Jan Ali explains that he

Afghan National Policeman Jan Ali explains that he volunteered to attend explosive ordnance disposal and improvised explosive device defeat training for one reason: to better protect and serve the citizens of A... More

ANA 215th Corps G3, Operations Officer Col. Aslum details

ANA 215th Corps G3, Operations Officer Col. Aslum details

ANA 215th Corps G3, Operations Officer Col. Aslum details plans to improve security in Now Zad district with the Resolute Support Advise and Assist Cell-Southwest team. (U.S. military photo by Lt. Sharon Mulhol... More

Ahmadudin, a safety officer from Kunar province, explains

Ahmadudin, a safety officer from Kunar province, explains

Ahmadudin, a safety officer from Kunar province, explains why it is important for him to attend the counter-IED and mine awareness seminar in Kabul. He traveled six hours for the training in order to learn abou... More

Members of the Afghan National Police prepare for their

Members of the Afghan National Police prepare for their

Members of the Afghan National Police prepare for their graduation from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal course at Central Training Center-Kabul. During the three-month course, students learned how to counter co... More

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest observes as

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest observes as

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest observes as an Afghan National Army soldier with the 215th Corps ties detonation cord to a block of C-4 at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, May 10, 2017. More than 20 ANA sold... More

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest demonstrates

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest demonstrates

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest demonstrates maneuverability of the TALON-MK2 on an operational control unit to Afghan National Army soldiers with Engineer Kandak, 215th Corps at Camp Shorabak, Afghanis... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps instructs

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps instructs

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps instructs his fellow soldiers on indicators of improvised explosive devices at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, July 13, 2017. Approximately 70 engineer soldiers with... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps sweeps

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps sweeps

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps sweeps for notional improvised explosive devices at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Aug. 29, 2017. Approximately 70 Afghan soldiers from throughout Helmand province ... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps

An Afghan National Army soldier with 215th Corps demonstrates proper route clearance procedures using a terrain model to engineer soldiers at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2017. Approximately 40 soldiers... More

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Afghan National Police

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Afghan National Police

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Afghan National Police assigned to the 202nd Zone Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team inspect a GPS device during joint training with the U.S. Army 202nd Police Advisory Team on Oct... More

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps sweep

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps sweep

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps sweep for notional improvised explosive devices during a route clearance course at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2017. The route clearance course is an eight... More

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps tie

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps tie

Afghan National Army soldiers with 215th Corps tie a demolition charge onto a block of C-4 at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, Dec. 26, 2017. Students undergoing an explosive hazard reduction course concluded the fo... More

Soldiers assigned to the 510th Route Clearance Company,

Soldiers assigned to the 510th Route Clearance Company,

Soldiers assigned to the 510th Route Clearance Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, conduct a route clearance patrol in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The 510th Route Clearance Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, condu... More

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction Course practice

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction Course practice

Soldiers in the Explosive Hazard Reduction Course practice using the Vallon metal detector during course instruction at the Joint Security Academy Southwest in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. These soldiers are ... More

An Afghan National Army soldier with 4th Kandak, 1st

An Afghan National Army soldier with 4th Kandak, 1st

An Afghan National Army soldier with 4th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps Route Clearance Platoon practices using a sickle after a fellow soldier picked up a signal with his metal detector during counter improv... More

Soldiers look at homemade explosives drying outside

Soldiers look at homemade explosives drying outside

Soldiers look at homemade explosives drying outside a simulated HME production facility at the Counter-IED interactive training course Dec. 10. Service members get first-hand experience seeing what a real produ... More

Senior Airman Lee Mclean, 966th Explosive Ordnance

Senior Airman Lee Mclean, 966th Explosive Ordnance

Senior Airman Lee Mclean, 966th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight Operating Location-Bravo partnership team member, digs a hole for an inert improvised explosive device to use during practice operations, March... More

A soldier with the 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, Afghan

A soldier with the 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, Afghan

A soldier with the 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, Afghan National Army, receives his certificate for completing the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Instructor Course at Forward Operating Base Delaram II, April 5... More

Afghan National Army Sgt. Din Mohammad, explosive ordnance

Afghan National Army Sgt. Din Mohammad, explosive ordnance

Afghan National Army Sgt. Din Mohammad, explosive ordnance disposal technician, Route Clearance Tolay, 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, carefully unearths a mock improvised explosive device during EOD training, April ... More

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students

Sgt. 1st Class David M. Furtado familiarizes students from the Afghanistan National Civil Order Police with the components of a counter-improvised explosive device robot as a part of a robot repair course given... More

Explosive hazard reduction course instructor Warrant

Explosive hazard reduction course instructor Warrant

Explosive hazard reduction course instructor Warrant Officer 2 Daniel P. Stanley observes a student uncovering a practice improvised explosive device during an exercise. The EHRC here now has two Afghan Nationa... More

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare equipment to

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare equipment to

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare equipment to defeat a training improvised explosive device during a session held by the 704th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company. The training is meant to improve the skil... More

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare equipment to

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare equipment to

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare equipment to defeat a training improvised explosive device during a session held by the 704th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company. The training is meant to improve the skil... More

Staff Sgt. Hamiedullah, an instructor at the Explosive

Staff Sgt. Hamiedullah, an instructor at the Explosive

Staff Sgt. Hamiedullah, an instructor at the Explosive Hazard Reduction Course at Camp Leatherneck, observes an Afghan National Army student as he interrogates a training improvised explosive device. The Afghan... More

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