Task Force Conducts Bomb Training With Philippine Police

ZAMBOANGA, PHILIPPINES

12.22.2009

Photo by Lt.j.g. Theresa Carpenter 

Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs           

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Smith, explosive ordnance disposal technician, assigned to Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, examines some of the chemical compounds in Improvised Explosive Devices. Smith and two other EOD Task Unit members taught a two-day course to members of the Philippine national police Regional Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Detection Unit 9 at their headquarters in Zamboanga del Norte. The class focused on ways to identify the various chemicals in homemade bombs, should the teams have to search a home of a suspected bomb maker.

• Date Taken: 12.22.2009
• Date Posted: 12.29.2009 15:53
• Photo ID: 235571
• VIRIN: 091222-N-1008D-051
• Resolution: 3216x2136
• Size: 633.12 KB
• Location: ZAMBOANGA, PH