U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott Rice and Dustin Frey, explosive ordnance disposal airmen deployed to the 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, cuts detonation cord before performing a controlled detonation, March 15, 2012. The EOD flight with the 966th AES is tasked to mitigate, render safe, and/or destroy any conventional or unconventional explosive threat as well as chemical, nuclear or biological hazards inside and outside the wire. Their operations can be performed 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Some of their responsibilities as EOD technicians include mitigating improvised explosive devices, post blast analysis and route clearing packages.
<dl><dd>Unit: U.S. Air Forces Central Command Public Affairs</dd>
<dd>DVIDS Tags: Airmen; Air National Guard; Explosion; Explosive Ordinance Disposal; AFCENT; Air Force; EOD; Homemade Explosive; AFCENT news team; Sara Csurilla; 966th AES</dd></dl>
Staff Sgt. Sara Keller
Taken on 16 March 2012
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