Story by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds | 20th CBRNE Command | 12.17.2018
FORT CARSON, Colo. – The 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), located at Fort Carson, Colorado, hosted its largest Team of the Year (ToY) competition at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Dec. 2-7, to evaluate the mental and physical fortitude and the technical skill of the best Soldiers its force has to offer. At the conclusion of the competition, team leader Staff Sgt. Matthew Hamilton......
Story by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds | 20th CBRNE Command | 04.24.2018
FORT CARSON, Colo. – The 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) decided its top EOD team in an annual competition April 8-12, to determine the best of the best within its ranks. This year’s winners are Staff Sgt. Christopher Draves and Spc. Gregory Krawciw, an explosive ordnance disposal team with 21st Ordnance Company (Weapons of Mass Destruction), Kirtland Air Force Base,......
Story by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds | 20th CBRNE Command | 02.14.2018
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Col. Frank Davis II, commander, 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), hosted a change of responsibility ceremony to signify the passing of the Group’s senior enlisted leadership from Command Sgt. Maj. Weston West to Command Sgt. Maj. Johnny Strickland, Feb. 9, at the William Reed Special Events Center on post....
Story by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds | 20th CBRNE Command | 01.26.2018
FORT CARSON, Colo. –When some people think of an x-ray, they might picture a person in a white lab coat pointing at a backlit image of a human skeleton. Suppose the very same technology used to provide doctors with an ability to see the inner workings of a human body could be used to detect explosive devices. It is not a new concept. The 71st Ordnance Disposal Group (EOD) and......
Story by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds | 20th CBRNE Command | 01.12.2018
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Six Soldiers from the 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) showcased EOD-specific tools and equipment, during the first Denver regional Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) robotics championship, Dec. 16-17, 2017, at the Auraria Campus Events Center, Metropolitan State University. The competition is designed to encourage young minds to......
Story by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds | 20th CBRNE Command | 11.27.2017
FORT CARSON, Colo. – For the first time, a conventional U.S. Army unit was granted approval to use electronic countermeasure (ECM) equipment on United States soil. Electronic countermeasure equipment is designed to block both incoming and outgoing signals from electronic devices. In the explosive ordnance disposal community, having such devices means that Soldiers can block potentially......
Courtesy Story | 20th CBRNE Command | 11.16.2017
Unit ministry teams from across the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command footprint gathered at Aberdeen Proving Ground over five days in late November to take part in a Field Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties (FMCBC) Course conducted by personnel from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD)....
Story by Staff Sgt. Kelly Simon | KFOR Regional Command East | 11.06.2017
Kosovo Security Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Kosovo Police Improvised Explosive Device Defeat and U.S. EOD removed an ordnance and weapons cache in Verbove, Kosovo Nov. 6. The U.S. EOD team received a detailed report of unexploded ordnance and weapons around 5:30pm Nov. 5 and responded with members of KSF EOD and KP IEDD that evening. After assessing the cache they secured the area,......
