FIELD 23, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL

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FIELD 23, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (2)

The ammunition and EOD OccFld includes planning, operations, and management related to a very hazardous group of materiel. These MOSs require personnel who are mature, mentally sound, and have evidenced a willingness and capability to perform their assigned duties in a reliable manner. The duties MOSs in this field are as follows: the ammunition technician handles, transports, and stores all type of ammunition, explosives, missiles, inspects materiel to determine serviceability and need for repair or destruction; the EOD technician provides the commander with the capability to neutralize hazards associated with conventional explosive ordnance, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and improvised explosive devices
(IED); and conducts ordnance technical intelligence and dynamic explosive entry.

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MOS 2336, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician

Written by Richard Morgan Published in FIELD 23, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL

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EOD technicians perform various duties that include locating, accessing, identifying, rendering safe, neutralizing, and disposing of hazards from foreign and domestic, conventional, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives (CBRNE) unexploded explosive ordnanc4e (UXO), improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and weapons of mass destruction (WMD that present a threat to operations, installations, personnel, or materiel.

MOS 2311, Ammunition Technician

Written by Richard Morgan Published in FIELD 23, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL

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Ammunition technicians work in every facet of the ammunition field, including receipt, storage, issue, and handling of ammunition and toxic chemicals.