It takes planning and fortitude to create effective events. During the Advanced EOD Conventional Course, EOD technicians worked through scenarios that required them to remove rounds from a 20mm barrel from a M61A1, 30mm barrel that came from an A-10 aircraft and 105mm barrel from a M60 tank. “If you can get the round out, you can protect the weapons systems”, he added. “Rounds can get stuck or jammed in a weapons system”, said Hilleren. One such scenario is called lodge projectile training. Roadside bombs are the most common example on an IED.

IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, are bombs constructed in different ways that conventional military action. Mark Hilleren, 148 th Fighter Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal team leader. “We’ve had many IED-focused training events, and this Advanced Convention Course allowed us the opportunity to look at and train on different conventional ordnance scenarios or tasks”, said Master Sgt. The user-designed course was created to provide realistic scenarios recently identified in the EOD Master Training Plan. EOD technicians are the Air National Guard’s equivalent to a bomb squad. Air National Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from the 148 th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard 177 th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard 166 th Airlift Wing, Delaware Air National Guard and the 119 th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard gathered for an Advanced Conventional Course at Camp Ripley Training Center, Minnesota, September 20-24, 2021.ĮOD technicians are trained to detect, disarm and dispose of explosive threats in the most extreme environments.

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