Building the future of Air Force EOD

Find out how the Air Force's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Preliminary Course at Sheppard AFB, Texas, has been successful in selecting and preparing the best candidates for one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the military.

[eodmax]

At one time you had to be a SSgt in 46150, 46250 or 46350 in order to crosstrain into EOD. I think it was mid 70s they opened EOD up to pipeline students, many of the old EOD Techs were really against it but one thing it did do for the career field is build a better rank structure and helped promotion opportunities. TSGT used to be a very hard rank to make when everyone started out as a SSGT. I spent 13 years in AMMO and 10 years in EOD and don't regret the day I crosstrained into EOD a very rewarding career field and tight Brotherhood.

[eodmommy]

My husband was an EOD Prelim instructor at Lackland. He had wanted the course lengthened with no success. Looks like someone finally listened. It would drive him nuts when students would pass at Lackland and get to Eglin and ring the bell to quit.

[lgqst]

My class started 24, 5 of the original remain.

[BMONEYSLO]

yea they moved it when they revamped the course. my class started with 17 and had 3 graduate. Word on the street is they softened it up though since then, cause sending such small groups to eglin wasnt working very well.

[Otters]

3 out of the original 5 of my starting group made it through school.

[AA-bsiy]

I plan to join the air national guard to do HVAC when I graduate high school in 2016.. Can't wait

[beverly]

Why AF EOD don’t go through a similar pipeline like Navy EOD I.e. jump school, Free fall, Dive school etc, since they get put with different branches and spec ops?

[harrisonschmidt]

6 of my original 26, 9 out of a total of 32 graduated from my class, 21002.

[GreasyRockabilly]

I really want EOD taking my PAST test this Tuesday for it!!

[Otters]

Well, that explains why the class size looks so large. When I went through we had 5, and it was still at Lackland. Did they move to Sheppard when they revamped the new course?

[danmiller]

That a very very hard training, EOD is not what people see on tv or movie....