What does an Explosive Ordnance Disposal do?

Main job specification: Dispose of Explosive Ordnance, or in layman's term, Bomb Squad or Garbageman for explosives. Go see the movie "The Hurt Locker." Even though, it (the movie) is not 100% accurate, but it is still a pretty good portrayal of what we do (But remember, it is a movie after all).

Well wether you join the Army or Marines depends on you. However you need to look at a back up plan in case you don't make it through training for some reason. As for what to join before doing EOD if you make it, well combat engineers work with explosives and such so that would be my guess.

Don't go and see the movie Hurt Locker. Navycrap, stop trying to pimp out bad movies of Army EOD techs. It was obviously based on Navy anyway, the main character's hair was too perfect.

Like NavyCrab said, we're basically the bomb squad for our respective services. We do everything from CONUS range clearance to rendering safe IEDs in sandy countries so that a certain pissy TF can have intel.

It's a great career, exciting and challenging .. constantly changing and there's always something new to learn. No one ever becomes a true expert in EOD .. always more to study.

Noodle,

Hate to state the obvious but you dispose of ordnance. IED's, dud's, etc..will be yours for blowing up.

They pretty much dispose of explosive ordinances.

Simple enough.

PFC Green

For the Air Force, you can expect to be sent to bare bases in Iraq and Afghanistan to clear surrounding areas for land mines, bombs, rockets, mortars, and any other live/dead XFO. Its a cool job but you will be the first ones to a base - and sometimes on convoys - sent as the test rats on where there may or may not be bombs.

Dispose and disarm explosives

these days on deployment:

they are either EOD QRF meaning if someone finds an IED they call them and they're out the gate in 5 minutes or less, go to where the IED is, and blow it up. they also handle things when the infantry guys/UAVs find stockpiles of ammunition...well they handle blowing it up at least.

EOD is also attached to trail blazer, which rolls around the roads looking for IEDs.

you get rid of explosives and ordnance. kinda self explanatory.

Exactly what the name implies