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Posted on 01/11/2004 5:18:56 AM PST by snippy_about_it
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EOD MEMORIAL HISTORY
On 14 February 1969, the EOD Memorial Committee was formed and consisted of the senior Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force officers of the EOD School. The Committee's intent was to design and have a memorial constructed at the Navy EOD School to honor those EOD men and women who gave their lives in the performance of duty.
Drawings of the proposed memorial were made and a $1,500 construction estimate was obtained. Land on the Naval Ordnance Station, Indian Head, Maryland, (now Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Maryland) was donated for this purpose and construction commenced immediately. The basic structure consists of four white cenotaphs, one for each branch of service. Attached to each cenotaph is a bronze tablet with the inscribed names. The Memorial became a reality through the efforts of volunteer EOD personnel.
Men and women whose names are placed on the memorial must be graduates of an approved EOD School who have died on active duty as a result of an EOD mission since the declaration of World War II. The EOD Memorial Committee uses the following criteria to establish eligibility:
DEATH AS A RESULT OF HOSTILE OR COVERT ACTION WHILE ASSIGNED OR ATTACHED TO PERFORM EOD DUTIES.
DEATH AS A RESULT OF PREPARING TO PERFORM OR PERFORMING A RENDER SAFE PROCEDURE DURING A DULY AUTHORIZED EOD MISSION.
DEATH AS A RESULT OF DISPOSAL, TEST EVALUATION OR RANGE CLEARANCE OPERATIONS, AFTER ASSIGNMENT AS AN EOD MISSION.
DEATH AS A RESULT OF TRAINING REQUIRED IN SUPPORT OF,OR IN PREPARATION FOR, AN ASSIGNED EOD MISSION.
Sixty-nine names were placed on the Memorial during the 12 June 1970 dedication ceremony. The names now total 172.
Three roses lie on the boots of Staff Sgt. Justin Galewski, an EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) soldier who was killed, along with three other service members, April 15, when rockets they were attempting to destroy accidentally exploded. Galewski was a native of Olathe, Kan. The soldiers' personal effects were displayed during a memorial service April 18 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elizabeth Casebeer, 314th Press Camp Headquarters)
The "Kevlars" (helmets) of the three EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) soldiers killed April 15 in an accidental explosion sit on M-16 rifles in the front of Freedom Chapel at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, during the memorial service April 18. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elizabeth Casebeer, 314th Press Camp Headquarters)
Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:
www.eodmemorial.org/
www.cnsl.spear.navy.mil/
www.armyhistoryfnd.org/
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01/11/2004 5:19:43 AM PST
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snippy_about_it
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To: All

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01/11/2004 5:20:18 AM PST
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snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
Good Sunday morning Snippy.
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01/11/2004 5:21:39 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: All
To: snippy_about_it
Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Foxhole. We could sure use some rain today. We're under a fire danger. Last time we had any siginificant rain was a couple of months ago.
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01/11/2004 5:34:41 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: snippy_about_it

Today's classic warship, North Carolina (BB-52)
South Dakota class battleship
Displacement: 43,200 tons
Dimensions: 684' (length overall); 106' (maximum beam)
Powerplant: 60,000 horsepower steam turbines with electric drive, producing a 23 knot maximum speed
Armament (Main Battery): Twelve 16"/50 guns in four triple turrets
Armament (Secondary Battery): Sixteen 6"/53 guns in single mountings (eight guns on each side of the ship)
The name North Carolina was assigned to BB-52, laid down at Norfolk Navy Yard 12 January 1920. However, work was halted 8 February 1922 under terms of the Washington Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armaments, and the battleship's uncompleted hull sold for scrapping 25 October 1923. She was subsequently broken up on the shipbuilding ways. Her name was struck from the Navy List 10 November 1923.
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01/11/2004 5:35:38 AM PST
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aomagrat
(IYAOYAS)
To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf
We alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us. Ezra 4:3
There are many ways to worship God, but only one God to worship.
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01/11/2004 6:05:39 AM PST
by
The Mayor
(The more you look forward to heaven, the less you'll desire of earth.)
To: snippy_about_it; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
snippy, thank you. The work of the EOD guys in Iraq and Afghanistan is eye-opening, awesome. Good Sunday thread. (^: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Explosive Ordnance Disposal

EOD guys, bang !
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-- Senior Airman Bryan Rodriquez (left) and Airman 1st Class Eric Schmedicke raise a toast to a successful detonation of more than 48,000 pounds of recovered Iraqi munitions at a remote explosive ordnance disposal range near here. Both airmen are assigned to the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron's explosive ordnance disposal flight here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Keith Reed) |
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To: E.G.C.
Good morning EGC. Hope you get your rain soon.
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01/11/2004 7:28:59 AM PST
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snippy_about_it
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To: aomagrat
Good morning aomagrat.
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01/11/2004 7:29:29 AM PST
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snippy_about_it
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thanks RC. Good to see you in the Foxhole! Keep up the good work.
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01/11/2004 7:30:04 AM PST
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snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
In fitting with the current date, make sure and rent the movie "Girls, Girls, Girls", staring Elvis Presly. It is near Elvis's birthday and he portrays a Navy EOD guy in the movie.
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:52:45 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(,When the EOD technician screws up, he is always the first to notice.)
To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; All

Good morning everyone!
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posted on
01/11/2004 7:54:40 AM PST
by
Soaring Feather
(~ I do Poetry ~ and ~ Dream a Lot ~)
To: snippy_about_it
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on January 11:
1727 Franz Sebastian Haindl composer
1746 William Curtis English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine)
1757 Alexander Hamilton West Indies, 1st US Secretary of Treasury ($10 face)
1807 Ezra Cornell founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
1807 Alfred Eugene "Stonewall" Jackson Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1814 Richard Griffith Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1815 Sir John A MacDonald (C) 1st PM of Canada (1867-73)
1816 Fitz-Henry Warren Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1818 John Reese Kenly Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1831 James Ronald Chalmers Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1885 Alice Paul ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party)
1886 George Zucco England, actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Fury)
1887 Aldo Leopold founder (Wilderness Society)
1903 Alan Paton South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
1904 Frederick Boland Irish diplomat/President (UN General Assembly)
1916 James H [Jimmy] Quillen (Representative-R-TN, 1963- )
1922 Neville Duke English test pilot
1924 Slim Harpo musician
1926 Grant Tinker broadcasting executive (NBC-TV)
1934 Jean Chrétien Canada PM (Liberal, 1993- )
1942 Clarence Clemons rock saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E St Band)
1946 Naomi Judd [Diana Ellen], Ashland KY, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1952 Lee Ritenour Los Angeles CA, jazz musician
1959 Brett Bodine auto racer
1974 Rosenkowitz sextuplets Cape Town South Africa (1st known to survive infancy)
Deaths which occurred on January 11:
0705 John VI Catholic Pope (701-05), dies
1055 Constantine IX Monomachos emperor of Byzantium, dies
1674 Jan Zoet actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58
1797 Francis Lightfoot Lee US farmer (signer Declaration of Independence), dies at 62
1843 Francis Scott Key composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63
1914 Ambrose Bierce writer, dies at 71
1923 Constantine I king of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), dies at 54
1928 Thomas Hardy novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies at his home near Dorchester at 87
1929 Julio Antonio Mella Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28
1953 Ernst H Ridder Rappard Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53
1959 Dr Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein discoverer of 6,000 year old pyramid, dies
1979 Jack Soo actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63
1981 Beulah Bondi actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 91
1988 Gregory (Pappy) Boyington ace WWII pilot, dies at 75 of cancer
1994 John Bradley, raised US flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70
1995 Willem N "Pim" Koot pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76
1997 Sheldon Leonard producer/director (Dick Van Dyke), dies at 89
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 GODFREY JOHNNY HOWARD---PHOENIX AZ.
1968 ANDERSON DENIS L.---HOPE KS.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 BUCK ARTHUR C.---SANDUSKY OH.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 MANCINI RICHARD M.---AMSTERDAM NY.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 OLSON DELBERT A.---CASSELTON ND.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 ROBERTS MICHAEL L.---PURVIS MS.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 SIOW GALE R.---HUNTINGTON PARK CA.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 STEVENS PHILLIP P.---TWIN LAKE MI.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 THORESEN DONALD N.---DETROIT MI.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1968 WIDON KENNETH H.---DETROIT MI.
[CRASH NO SEARCH]
1970 CHORLINS RICHARD DAVID---UNIVERSITY CITY MO.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0314 St Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0532 Nika-revolt against Justianus & Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople
0705 John VI ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1158 Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king
1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn at St Paul's Cathedral
1571 Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
1599 Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat
1672 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1693 Mt Etna erupts, Sicily
1758 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia
1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
1774 Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City NY
1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1803 Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana
1805 Michigan Territory is organized
1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
1861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman AR
1865 Battle of Beverly WV
1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1892 Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
1913 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City NY)
1919 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
1919 Romania annexes Transylvania
1922 Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1925 Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Secretary of State
1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad
1942 -23ºF (-31ºC), Kingston RI (state record)
1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Republic of Albania with himself dictator
1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia
1962 Mandela leaves South Africa, travels to Ethiopia, Algeria & England
1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
1963 Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
1963 1st discotheque opens, The Whiskey-a-go-go in Los Angeles CA
1964 US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
1970 Super Bowl IV Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Len Dawson, Kansas City, Quarterback
1971 Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, suffers a heart attack, misses the 1971 season, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule(BOOOO)
1973 Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington DC
1974 ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1976 Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consecutive national figure skating championship
1977 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics
1983 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time
1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
1990 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
1991 Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
1993 Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
2000 The British government declared Chiles Gen. Augusto Pinochet medically unfit to stand trial in Spain.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
International Thank You Day
Albania : Republic Day (1946)
Chad : Independence Day (1960)
Puerto Rico : De Hostos' Birthday (1839)
Switzerland : Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712) (Sunday)
US : Pharmacists Day
US : Man Watcher's Week Begins
National Oatmeal Month
Religious Observances
ancient Rome : Carmentalia (a d iij Id Jan)
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Theodosius the Cenobite
Anglican, Roman Catholic : Feast of the Baptism of Jesus Christ
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Hyginus, 9th pope (c 136-c 140), martyr
Religious History
1523 German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'It is unchristian, even unnatural, to derive benefit and protection from the community and not also to share in the common burden and expense; to let other people work but to harvest the fruit of their labors.'
1777 Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A soul may be in as thriving a state when thirsting, seeking and mourning after the Lord as when actually rejoicing in Him; as much in earnest when fighting in the valley as when singing upon the mount.'
1791 In Philadelphia, Episcopal Bishop William White, 43, founded the First Day Society. It became the forerunner of the American Missionary Fellowship, chartered in 1817 and headquartered today in Villanova, PA.
1907 The Church of God, headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee, and with roots going back to 1886, officially adopted its current name.
1933 In Hamburg, Germany, the Altona Confession was issued by area pastors, offering Scriptural guidelines for the Christian life, in light of the confusing political situation and the developing Nazi influence on the State Church.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Remember, when we pull the pin Mr. Hand Grenade is no longer our friend"
Question of the day...
Is it OK to use the AM radio after noon?
Murphys Law of the day...(Gadarene Swine Law)
Merely because the group is in formation does not mean that the group is on the right course.
Astounding fact #81,723,650...
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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posted on
01/11/2004 8:01:39 AM PST
by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
To: U S Army EOD
Good morning US Army EOD. Good to see you today. Thanks for the Elvis tip!
Thank you for your service as an EOD man!
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posted on
01/11/2004 8:29:19 AM PST
by
snippy_about_it
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To: bentfeather
Good morning feather.
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posted on
01/11/2004 8:29:40 AM PST
by
snippy_about_it
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To: Valin
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.I had no idea.
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posted on
01/11/2004 8:30:50 AM PST
by
snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
Note in the painting of the British Bomb Disposal team with the German bomb. If you will look close, you will note that they are working on and taking something out of the side of the bomb. Having seen Hawkeye disarm a bomb on Mash, you ask yourself, what is wrong with that photo. Actually nothing since the Germans used tranverse fuzing and put their fuzes in the side and in a lot of cases the bombs were hung by the nose in the bomb bay. Next time you watch some German bombers in action, watch how the bombs seem to be tumbling out of the bomb bay.
These fuzes were electric and could be programed by the pilot before he dropped it as to delay, ground impact, penetration, etc. They had this back in 1939. The Germans also had a airlauched flying bomb with a television camera at this time.
The Germans also had many booby traps for the fuzes and time fuzes as such. They would protect the removal of the time fuze with an anti disturbance fuze. The ELAZ 50 was one of these. We had one at Indianhead in 1966 we had to work on in a 5000lb bomb. You could stop your foot next to the bomb and make it fire. They also had the ZUS 40 that fitted under all of their bomb fuzes that would go off if you removed the fuze. The way the British found that was when one failed to function when the guy took it out, wasn't sure what it was and carried it in his pocket all night. The same night 9 other teams were blown away by the ZUS 40. When he found that out he decided he should at least take a look at it to determine what it was.
There is a very good book call UXB about British Bomb Disposal. Knowing the fuzes, you would wonder how in the hell these guys got away with what they did to certain bombs early in the book. But as you read further in the book you would find the results. For instance it would say Lt Ripplebottom did this and this to a bomb equipped with an ELAZ 17 and you would wonder how. About two or three chapters later you would run accross the part where unfortunately Lt. Ripplebottom and three of his been were blown up after they attempted to------.
Those early guys had a lot of guts. The guy Vince Sibel who I mentioned before about the Catch 22 story, disarmed two of the ELAZ 50's during the war and lived to tell me about it in 1967.
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posted on
01/11/2004 8:42:23 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(,When the EOD technician screws up, he is always the first to notice.)
To: snippy_about_it
Rent the movie, the EOD part is actually pretty good. I suspect the extras diving with him are infact Navy EOD.
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posted on
01/11/2004 8:45:14 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(,When the EOD technician screws up, he is always the first to notice.)
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