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The New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, combining vehicle ramming and failed explosive devices, highlights a deeply concerning escalation in lone-wolf terrorist tactics on American soil.
Call it bad luck or pure stupidity, but if you’re messing with riot control devices and blow off part of your arm in the process, don’t expect me to call you a victim—just a Darwin Award contender.
Scott Sweetow, who spent four years as the Deputy Director and Acting Director of the FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), details the emerging insurgency building in Ukraine and the increasing tactical and technical employment of IEDs in this war.
As French and Malian forces continue to suffer losses, the French government announces it is considering a drawdown of troops in Mali.
The coordinated attack resulted in the death of 10 civilians and the wounding of 12 others, including three of Afghan VP’s security personnel.
U.S Marine Corps (Ret.) Sgt. Robert Jones leads a motivational run at Camp Lejeune on Sept. 4. Sgt. Jones lost both his legs to an IED while in Afghanistan.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported that a Russian major general was killed in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province on Tuesday after the convoy he was riding in hit an improvised explosive device (IED). According to the state-owned news agency TASS, the Russian convoy was returning from what the Russian military said was a “humanitarian mission” […]
A joint Russian-Turkish vehicle patrol in northwest Syria’s Idlib Province was hit with a massive improvised explosive device (IED) on Tuesday morning at 0850 hours local time. Three Russian troops and several Turks were injured in the blast. Both Russian and Turkish vehicles were damaged in the attack. Although the Russians and Turks support opposing […]
An Air Force sergeant has been arrested and is facing murder charges for the death of one police officer and the wounding of two in an ambush that involved several Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), last Saturday in California. Sergeant Damon Gutzwiller, a deputy with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, was killed during the incident. […]
A little over two years ago, a combined assault force comprised of Delta Force and Special Air Service operators went after an ISIS high-value-individual (HVI) somewhere in Syria. As the commandos neared their objective, an improvised explosive device (IED) went off killing one American and one British operator. The consequent investigations by the U.S. and […]
n Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician, from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 (EODMU 8), assigned to Navy Expeditionary Combat Force Europe-Africa/Task Force (CTF) 68, conducts in-water safety checks as part of annual bi-lateral altitude and ice dive training in the Pyrenees Mountains with dives from the Spanish Navy Center for Diving (Centro de Buceo de […]
The Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community is looking for its future leaders. More specifically, the Navy EOD community is looking for either civilian candidates or Sailors already serving in the fleet who are looking into commissioning through the Enlisted to Officer Commissioning Program (OPNAVINST 1420.1B). Both categories of candidates will have to complete the […]
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