Maj. Gen. Antonio V. Munera (left), the commanding basic of twentieth CBRNE Command, met with Republic of Korea Army Brig. Gen. Chang Ho Kang, the commanding basic of the ROK Army Ammunition Command, on the twentieth CBRNE Command Headquarters on Aberdeen Proving Floor, Maryland. American and South Korean Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians are forging stronger bonds to confront and defeat explosive units in assist of navy operations on the Korean Peninsula.
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Members of the Republic of Korea Army Ammunition Command just lately visited the headquarters for the U.S. Army’s twentieth Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, the U.S. navy’s premier all hazards formation. American and South Korean Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians are forging stronger bonds to confront and defeat explosive units in assist of navy operations on the Korean Peninsula.
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Maj. Gen. Antonio V. Munera (left), the commanding basic of twentieth CBRNE Command, met with Republic of Korea Army Brig. Gen. Chang Ho Kang, the commanding basic of the ROK Army Ammunition Command, on the twentieth CBRNE Command Headquarters on Aberdeen Proving Floor, Maryland. American and South Korean Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians are forging stronger bonds to confront and defeat explosive units in assist of navy operations on the Korean Peninsula.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – American and South Korean Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians are forging stronger bonds to confront and defeat explosive units in assist of navy operations on the Korean Peninsula.
Members of the Republic of Korea Army Ammunition Command just lately visited the headquarters for the U.S. Army’s twentieth Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, the U.S. navy’s premier all hazards formation.
Troopers and U.S. Army civilians from twentieth CBRNE Command deploy from 19 bases in 16 states to tackle the world’s most harmful hazards.
Maj. Gen. Antonio V. Munera, the commanding basic of twentieth CBRNE Command, met with Republic of Korea Army Brig. Gen. Chang Ho Kang, the commanding basic of the ROK Army Ammunition Command, throughout the go to.
Headquartered on Aberdeen Proving Floor, Maryland, the twentieth CBRNE Command is residence to 75 p.c of the Lively Obligation U.S. Army’s EOD technicians and Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) specialists, in addition to the first Space Medical Laboratory, CBRNE Analytical and Remediation Exercise, 5 Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordination Groups and three Nuclear Disablement Groups.
Sgt. Alexander Spears, proper, and Pfc. Eee-Jay Rodriguez, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialists assigned to the 718th Ordnance Firm, twenty third Chemical Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, assess the placement and situations surrounding a simulated explosive system throughout complete coaching with navy police from throughout Humphreys, Feb. 11. For the coaching, navy police reacted to a simulated risk by securing the placement and relaying info to the EOD crew, who had been dispatched to appropriately react to and safely comprise the risk.
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Pfc. Eee-Jay Rodriguez, proper, an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialist assigned to the 718th Ordnance Firm, twenty third Chemical Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, secures an EOD bomb go well with helmet for Sgt. Alexander Spears, an EOD specialist additionally assigned to 718th EOD, throughout complete coaching at Humphreys, Feb. 11. The EOD crew labored alongside navy police to safe, comprise and take away a simulated explosive risk to recreate a possible real-life situation, fortifying the experience and excellence that’s important to Humphreys.
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Col. Christopher P. Bartos, the operations officer for the twentieth CBRNE Command, stated the assembly will result in future coaching alternatives between to the allied militaries.
“The aim of the ROK Ammunition Assist Command go to was to begin the dialogue on how finest to collaborate on future U.S.-ROK EOD coaching and the place the twentieth can advise on future ROK EOD construction and functionality,” stated Bartos, a seasoned U.S. Army EOD officer from Edgewater, Florida. “To some extent, the dialogue targeted on gaining higher understanding of every command’s capabilities to strengthen interoperability between our EOD forces.”
“We be taught from the ROK Army, they be taught from our forces, and we develop into higher collectively,” stated Bartos.
Based on Bartos, the allies plan to schedule working teams that may advise on command capabilities and schedule coaching engagements beneath the platoon degree.
Sgt. Maj. Joseph O. Richardson, the twentieth CBRNE Command operations sergeant main and the senior EOD noncommissioned officer on the command headquarters, has constructed relationships that can yield new alternatives for U.S. and ROK EOD coaching, stated Bartos.
The twentieth CBRNE Command routinely serves with South Korean navy items, from the ROK Nuclear Characterization Groups to the ROK CBRN Protection Command. The U.S. navy has 28,500 service members stationed in South Korea who assist to take care of safety on the Korean Peninsula and stability in Northeast Asia.
