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AFIMSC members earn 2024 Air Force Civil Engineer Awards
March 10, 2025 — Five Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center members recently won 2024 Air Force Civil Engineer Awards for their outstanding performance this past year... MORE

2024 USAF CE Awards graphic displaying the trophies for the awards

National Robot Rodeo ropes in emerging EOD technologies
September 11, 2024 — With over 25 industry partners in attendance, the goal of this year’s rodeo was to put technologies and prototypes into the hands of bomb experts in the earlier stages of development to test their capabilities, identify issues and evaluate equipment that could make its way to the field... MORE

Around the Air Force: Recruiter Health Care, Better EOD Robots, Ejection Seat Testing
February 2, 2024 — This week's look around the Air Force highlights an effort to provide better healthcare solutions for recruiters in remote locations, an upgrade to explosive ordnance disposal robots, and testing of a new ejection seat configuration for the new T-7A trainer aircraft... MORE

This week's look around the Air Force highlights an effort to provide better healthcare solutions for recruiters in remote locations, an upgrade to explosive ordnance disposal robots, and testing of a new ejection seat configuration for the new T-7A trainer aircraft. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Travis Burcham)

JBSA Explosive Ordnance Disposal holds inaugural Joint Field Training Exercise
December 13, 2023 — Joint Base San Antonio’s 902nd Civil Engineer Squadron and 433rd CES held the inaugural 2023 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Texas Regional Field Training Exercise late last month at JBSA-Camp Bullis with members from Dyess Air Force Base’s 7th CES and Barksdale Air Force Base’s 2nd CES... MORE

502nd Air Base Wing command team visits EOD
April 21, 2023 — Brig. Gen. Russell D. Driggers, Joint Base San Antonio and 502nd Air Base Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Casy Boomershine, JBSA and 502nd ABW command chief, visited the 902nd Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal training site at the JBSA-Chapman Training Annex April 17, 2023, for a demonstration of the EOD team’s full range of capabilities... MORE

U.S. Army civilian ordnance disposal experts safeguard nation from explosive threats
August 20, 2022 — U.S. Army civilian ordnance disposal experts take on unexploded ordnance in support of military operations and civil authorities. The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives, or CBRNE, Analytical and Remediation Activity, also known as CARA, routinely has open job announcements for EOD technicians. The announcements can be found on USAJobs.gov by searching APG. Grades can vary between GS-11 to GS-13 depending on the individual’s experience and level of training... MORE

How the new Special Warfare Branch at AFRS is making a difference
August 17, 2022 — One year into being, the Special Warfare Branch at Air Force Recruiting Service is yielding results by trying new approaches to win talent for an elite set of careers... MORE

Lt. Col. Joseph Lopez and Tech. Sgt. Kevin Dunham, two of seven members of AFRS’s Recruiting Operations Special Warfare branch pose for a photo outside AFRS’s headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Aug. 4, 2022.

U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal NCOs lead from front for 80 years
April 29, 2022 — U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal noncommissioned officers have defeated dangerous explosive devices and molded EOD teams since the Army EOD profession began more than 80 years ago at the Bomb Disposal School on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland... MORE

433rd CES performs Total Force explosive ordnance training
February 18, 2022 — The 433rd Airlift Wing's mission statement is to "Provide Combat Ready Citizen Airmen Anywhere, Anytime." On Feb. 9-10, 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal technicians demonstrated that mission focus through several training exercises with the 902nd Civil Engineer Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland... MORE

Staff Sgt. Wesley Curfman, 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal journeyman, disarms a triple ejection rack on a 149th Fighter Wing F-16 Fighting Falcon during an aircraft familiarization exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Feb. 10, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Mark Colmenares)

902nd CES EOD called to investigate potential sea mine in Matagorda
October 8, 2021 — When coming across a large metal sphere that you suspect could contain approximately 300 pounds of explosives, you should probably bring in the experts – in this case, the 902nd Civil Engineering Squadron’s explosive ordnance disposal team at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland... MORE

The 902nd Civil Engineering Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team

AFCEC begins rollout of upgraded EOD imaging tech
July 27, 2021 — The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Readiness Directorate has begun delivering upgraded portable imaging X-ray systems to explosive ordnance disposal flights around the Air Force. ... MORE

New robots help EOD teams do jobs safer, better, faster
April 15, 2021 — The recent arrival of a new set of explosive ordnance disposal robots at the 902nd Civil Engineering Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland is enabling Air Force and Space Force EOD teams to do their jobs safer, better and faster... MORE

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Shayne Mooney, an explosive ordinance disposal technician with the 902nd Civil Engineering Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, operates the Man Transportable Robotic Systems-Increment II, or MTSR II, during training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland April 14.

Resourceful 502nd LRS munitions inspectors save time, money
December 17, 2019 — When Ray Jolivette, 502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron senior munitions inspector at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Medina Annex, heard someone say, “work smarter … not harder,” he took it to heart... MORE

David Dean, 502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron munitions inspector turns the handle on a collapsible reel while Kristofer Lastrapes, another munitions inspector, tightens the slack on the spool winder as cord goes into a counter on the team’s innovative design for revolutionizing the measuring of detonation and fuse cords at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Medina Annex Dec. 3, 2019.

902nd CES explosive ordnance disposal unit keeps JBSA safe
June 17, 2019 — Potentially dangerous packages and items come in all shapes and sizes. Military training areas or training target areas for fighter aircraft may have unidentified and potentially dangerous explosive devices hidden in the ground. A grandparent may have taken a "trophy" home after military service that's discovered in an attic. The explosive ordnance disposal is continuously on alert and ready to safely handle any potential explosive-related danger that could be lurking... MORE

Staff Sgt. Brandon Foster and Staff Sgt. Eli Marquez, 902nd Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordinance Disposal team leaders, practices disarming chemical munitions May 17, 2019, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. EOD team members are Trained to detect, disarm, detonate and dispose of explosive threats.

Air Force gets bigger bang for EOD bucks
February 1, 2019 — The Air Force wants to give Explosive Ordnance Disposal senior noncommissioned officers a bigger bang in their paychecks in the form of a selective retention bonus if they’ll agree to stay in EOD for a minimum of three more years... MORE

Senior NCO EOD retention bonuses for 3-to-5 year service contracts

Reserve Citizen Airmen flex their skills during exercise
November 19, 2018 — More than 200 Airmen from 120 different Unit Type Codes participated in the final portion of the 433rd Airlift Wing’s 2018 Annual Readiness Assessment training exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Nov. 17. ... MORE

Three 433rd Airlift Wing Reserve Citizen Airmen inspect simulated M8 chemical detection paper during a wing-wide readiness exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas Nov. 17, 2018.

EOD fitness assessment under revision
June 12, 2018 — The Air Force Exercise Science Unit located at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph is currently studying the Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Air Liaison Officer Tactical Air Control Party career field’s... MORE

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal member takes part in a fitness study June 5, 2018, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph.

JBSA-Lackland hosts Honorary Commander Tour
August 21, 2017 — More than 20 military and community leaders visited various units at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, during the 502nd Air Base Wing Honorary Commander Tour Aug. 16, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. MORE

A honorary commanders’ tour was hosted Aug. 16, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.