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2336 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician

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Overview

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician locates, accesses, identifies, renders safe, neutralizes, and disposes of explosive and hazardous threats. The technician handles foreign and domestic CBRNE hazards, unexploded ordnance, improvised explosive devices, and weapons of mass destruction that threaten operations, installations, personnel, or material.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 110

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Identification of foreign and domestic ordnance
  • Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazard neutralization

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Military experience identifying, rendering safe, neutralizing and disposing of explosive ordnance transfers directly to civilian explosives handling.

How to prepare: Ask a prospective employer and the relevant licensing authority to assess your existing qualifications and documented EOD experience against the intended work, including OSHA construction-blasting requirements for demonstrated method-specific competency and knowledge of state and local explosives laws. For employment involving possession of explosives, confirm applicable ATF employee-possessor reporting and background checks with the employer, separately from the employer's business licensing or permit obligations.

What the civilian work involves
  • Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
  • Place safety cones around blast areas to alert other workers of danger zones, and signal workers as necessary to ensure that they clear blast sites prior to explosions.

Hazardous Materials Removal Workers

Military work identifying, neutralizing and disposing of CBRNE hazards provides relevant experience for hazardous-material handling and removal.

How to prepare: Have a removal employer assess your existing qualifications and documented EOD experience against a specific assignment, identifying gaps in containment and waste-disposal procedures. Ask which hazardous-waste safety training, including whether HAZWOPER applies, and which asbestos- or lead-specific training, certification or licensing you still need for that assignment rather than treating CHMM as a substitute.

What the civilian work involves
  • Build containment areas prior to beginning abatement or decontamination work.
  • Prepare hazardous material for removal or storage.
  • Comply with prescribed safety procedures or federal laws regulating waste disposal methods.

Training & Development

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Career Growth

  • Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)

    Support progression into broader hazardous-material handling, storage and disposal responsibilities after assessing existing education and documented experience against IHMM eligibility.

    Eligibility and preparation: A baccalaureate degree or higher from an accredited college or university and at least four years of relevant hazardous-materials management or related experience are required before scheduling and taking the exam. Relevant experience can include hazardous-materials handling, emergency preparation and response, and remediation.

    For: Hazardous Materials Removal Workers

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (6 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 2336

    [1] MOS 2336 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 35581; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Identification of foreign and domestic ordnance, Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazard neutralization, Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00), Hazardous Materials Removal Workers (O*NET 47-4041.00)

  2. O*NET: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

  3. OSHA 29 CFR 1926.901: Blaster qualifications

    [3] Construction blasting, paragraphs (a)-(e). Verified 2026-09-24.

    Supports: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

  4. ATF explosives licensing and employee-possessor reporting requirements

    [4] 27 CFR 555.41(b)(1)(i)-(iii) and 555.57(b)-(c), official 2026-09-21 XML snapshots retained. Individual employment and the employer business license are distinct.

    Supports: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

  5. O*NET: Hazardous Materials Removal Workers

    [5] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Hazardous Materials Removal Workers (O*NET 47-4041.00)

  6. COOL credential mapping: Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)

    [6] 2336 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)

    [7]IHMM: Certified Hazardous Materials Manager eligibility · Eligibility Requirements, Prerequisites and Relevant Experience; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)

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