Advice on USAF eod....?

Air Force EOD School is no harder than Navy, Army, or Marine EOD School. We all go to the same School. The Navy does go to Basic Underwater Dive School (or BUDS) before attending EOD School and they also go to Underwater after everyone else graduates since they are dive qualified and may need render safe a sea mine or limpet. As far as the "highspeed" schools, The Army can also go to Airborne School and has an Airborne unit that supports the Rangers. The Army has a unit that supports CAG (also known as Delta) and the they have the only unit whose sole mission is WMDs. If you were in the Air Force, you may find yourself on an installation that houses Nukes and you may get some special training on them.

As already explained, in the Navy you could find yourself supporting Seals or Devgru, but you could also find yourself doing that in the Air Force. The fact is, if there is a special unit in that area who needs EOD support and your team happens to be the only EOD team in the area, you will support them.

There is nothing really physical about EOD other than the regular military physical training. The same stuff that everyone else does. EOD school is 99% mental with most of the time spent in a classroom and the potential for multiple test in a week.

As an example, they will teach you how to generally identify every single grenade in the world by how they function and the safeties you must be aware of with each one, there are well over 1000 in world. They teach this in one afternoon and the following morning during the test, they lay out 20 different grenades and you have to identify them and list the safeties. Score less than an 85% and you fail. They would give you a retest but if you fail that, you roll out of class and they may not let you back in. If they do and you fail a third time, they re-class you to another job. The whole school is similar to this scenario.

The fail rate changes all the time but the last I heard it was 47% for the entire school. The Marines generally have a lower fail rate because they only let in Marines who have been in for a while. The Navy generally have the second lowest fail rate because they weed out people in Basic Underwater Dive School before they allow sailors to attend EOD School. The Army is third because they have a School that takes 6 weeks that soldiers must pass before they can attend EOD school but they also allow recruits to go straight from basic to EOD school so the Army's numbers are a bit higher. The Air Force also allows recruits to go from basic to EOD school and their training course at Lackland is 6 weeks like the Army's. Not sure if they have gotten their numbers less than the Army yet, but Lakland was suppose to help lower their attrition rates for Eglin.

For EOD, the tests are very hard; you need to get over 80% just to pass each test. There will be a test every week; you will have to really pay attention in class and really study hard during Study Hall (you can't take any material outside of the building). The instructors will shove bunch of information into your brain in a very little period of time, and you'd better be able to memorize the majority of them.

And when you are at the range, follow EVERY step of the instructions; you can get dropped for just a single safety violation.

Also on the weekends, you'd better behave yourself; there will be few candidates that will get dropped for some stupid $hit that happened on/off-base (drink responsibly).

The physical portion of USAF EOD is not all as bad as Navy EOD; just be able to run long distances.

First off its called AFSC in the airforce, not MOS. If you don't know that you haven't done the fundamental research you should know when joining. Im not aware exactly what a space command is, but it sounds drastically different than EOD. Most times the two solid careers of choice for a person are somewhat related to each other. How old are you? When do you plan on joining?

EOD school is one of the most academically challenging schools in any branch of the US military. That is no lie.

If you are interested in EOD I highly suggest looking at Navy EOD. They go to a whole sh*tload of high speed schools (i.e. Airborne and Dive) that you will not get in EOD in the other branches (most likely)

I served 7 years in a joint Army-Air Force unit. My boss was a Master EOD Air Force Officer and the former Commander and Instructor of the USAF detachment at the EOD school. The one thing he told me that has stuck in my mind is that he would have gone Navy for EOD had he been able to do it over again.

And that is from the mouth of one of the USAF's top dog EOD guys. Take it for what it is worth.