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EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician

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Overview

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians locate, identify, render safe, and dispose of foreign and domestic conventional, chemical, biological, nuclear, underwater, and terrorist devices. They conduct ordnance intelligence and counterterrorism operations, maintain specialized equipment, and perform diving, demolitions, parachuting, and unconventional tactical insertion and extraction duties.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: VE+AR 109 or GS+MC+EI 169

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: milpersman-1306-618-rating-list-2026-04 (source date 2026-04). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Open and closed-circuit diving supervision
  • Ordnance-related intelligence collection and exploitation
  • Specialized EOD equipment maintenance and repair
  • Interagency anti-terrorism and force protection instruction

Civilian Career Paths

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Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Military ordnance identification, disposal, and explosive demolition experience directly overlaps civilian explosives work.

How to prepare: Have a prospective employer assess your documented demolition experience against its blasting methods, OSHA construction-blaster competency standards, and applicable state and local requirements before choosing additional training or certification. Construction blasters must demonstrate safe, method-specific competency and knowledge of explosives laws; employment under an explosives license or permit also involves employer reporting of authorized possessors and possible ATF background checks, distinct from obtaining a business explosives license.

What the civilian work involves
  • 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.

Commercial Divers

Performing and supervising military open and closed-circuit dives provides a foundation for commercial diving assignments.

How to prepare: Have a commercial-diving employer assess your existing qualifications, course records, and dive logs against its assigned diving modes and tasks, including OSHA requirements for relevant equipment, emergency procedures, CPR, first aid, and diving physics and physiology. If the employer uses ADCI classifications, request an equivalency assessment before enrolling in more schooling: its Entry Level framework requires 625 documented instructional hours or a recognized equivalent, while Air Diver requires 100 field days and 30 working dives, with only surface-supplied dives qualifying.

What the civilian work involves
  • Check and maintain diving equipment, such as helmets, masks, air tanks, harnesses, or gauges.
  • Obtain information about diving tasks and environmental conditions.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Diving logbook software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (7 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 38043; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Open and closed-circuit diving supervision, Ordnance-related intelligence collection and exploitation, Specialized EOD equipment maintenance and repair, Interagency anti-terrorism and force protection instruction, Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00), Commercial Divers (O*NET 49-9092.00)

  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: Commercial Divers

    [5] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Commercial Divers (O*NET 49-9092.00)

  6. OSHA 29 CFR 1910.410: Qualifications of dive team

    [6] Commercial Diving Operations, paragraphs (a) and (b). Verified 2026-09-24.

    Supports: Commercial Divers (O*NET 49-9092.00)

  7. ADCI: Commercial diver classification requirements

    [7] Entry Level and Air Diver card classifications. ADCI framework, not a universal government license. Verified 2026-09-24.

    Supports: Commercial Divers (O*NET 49-9092.00)

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