ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Va. – A Vietnam veteran, former Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician and retired Navy vice admiral made a lasting difference for his nation. U.S. Navy Vice Adm.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Master Chief Boatswain’s Mate (BMCM) Sherman Byrd is being honored in the first-of-its-kind exhibit by the United States Department of Defense at the Pentagon. A ribbon-cutting ...

When Sherman Byrd was a kid in the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s, his three older brothers would sometimes throw him into a lake, just to see if he could it make back to shore. They weren't about to ...

(FOX5/KUSI) — “It took 8 hours and 55 minutes, which was way longer than I thought,” said David Lyman, a retired Navy EOD bomb squad tech who ran the marathon of a lifetime — in a full bomb suit. “The ...

The Navy's explosive ordnance disposal community is offering big retention bonuses to keep officers in its ranks. A Navy explosive ordnance disposal technician assigned to the Explosive Ordnance ...

Among the EOD Warrior Foundation's core "pillars" is maintaining the Memorial Wall at the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal facility on Eglin Air Force Base. NICEVILLE — In a modest building ...

Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving Salvage Unit Two create a diving site on Ferrell Lake, Minnesota, Feb. 4 during Snow Crab Exercise 23-1. The training is designed to test and evaluate the ...

Explosive ordnance disposal technicians assigned to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the U.S. Navy participate in a live bottom mine contact charge demonstration during IWOTO 2019 on ...

U.S. Coast Guard deployable specialized forces (DSF) assigned to Maritime Security Response Team - West (MSRT-W) and Royal Canadian Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians assigned to Fleet ...

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