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 ordnance (UXO), improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and weapons of mass destruction (WMD that present a threat to operations, installations, personnel, or materiel
Advise Personnel on the Hazards of Unexploded Explosive Ordnance and Improvised Explosive Devices; Employ the Automated Explosive Ordnance Disposal Publications System (60 Series); Perform Radiological Monitoring; Calculate Downwind Hazard Area; Perform Toxic Chemical/Biological agent Detection Tests; Conduct CBRN Reconnaissance Operations; Don Chemical Protective Clothing.
Conduct EOD Reporting; Validate EOD Reporting; Manage Class V; Apply the Military Munitions Rule; Prepare Standing Operating Procedures (SOP); Employ Improvised Disruption Charges; Employ Commercial and/or Foreign Military Explosives