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  • Luke EOD trains at Camp Navajo: Furious Alpaca

    CAMP NAVAJO, Ariz. – Twenty-one members assigned to the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight participated in a three-day field training exercise, Furious Alpaca, April 10 - 13, 2023, at Camp Navajo, Arizona.

  • 56th CES hosts resiliency event

    Members of the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron race their amphibious vehicles in the base pool during a team-building event at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, July 21, 2022. Members of the 56th CES and other participants challenged the engineers with water blasters as competitors raced. (U.S. Air Force

  • EOD drops BDU-33s to showcase handling procedures

    Tech. Sgt. Michael Alger (right), 56th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team leader, provides an explosive safety briefing to Airmen prior to intentionally dropping a BDU-33 ordnance during a demonstration, Nov. 18, 2020, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. EOD Airmen offered three

  • EOD detonates rocket motor

    Staff Sgt. Jordan Jones, 56th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team member, assigned to Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., inspects the aftermath of an explosion Sept. 12, 2019, at the Barry M. Goldwater Range near Gila Bend, Ariz. EOD detonated a rocket motor, containing more than 7,200

  • Reserve spouse to memorialize fallen EOD Airman

    The spouse of a Reserve Citizen Airman here at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, recently sculpted a bust of Senior Airman Daniel Johnson, 30th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal technician, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Johnson was killed in action Oct. 5, 2010 while serving

  • SFS, EOD visit local middle school

    Members of the 56th Security Forces Squadron and 56th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight visited L. Thomas Heck Middle School as a thank you to students who worked to gather food and entertainment materials to create care packages for deployed servicemembers April 20, 2018,

  • EOD engage in fly-away training

    When conducting military operations in a hostile environment, situational awareness requires mental fortitude, resilience and skill. The stressful conditions can cause uncertainty in ones own capability, also known as the ‘fog of war’.To reduce the uncertainty in these situations, the 56th Civil

  • EOD Airmen maintain readiness

    The 56th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal Airmen participated in the fifth annual exercise called Operation Enduring Training Feb. 6 to Feb. 10 at the Barry M. Goldwater Range located southwest of Luke Air Force Base in Gila Bend, Ariz.