The 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) is the command and control headquarters for all

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Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. ''Bomb disposal'' is an all-encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the milit ...

(EOD) Battalions and Companies located east of the Mississippi River in the Continental United States (CONUS). The current command team consists of Colonel Matthew L. Kuhns and Command Sergeant Major Isaac J. Allender. Their command covers 184th and 192nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD), as well as the 63rd Chemical Company (CBRN). Subordinate units maintain EOD Response Teams, which evaluate, render safe, and remove conventional, chemical/biological, or nuclear ordnance, or

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s (IEDs) which pose an immediate threat to public safety. While subordinate units are trained and equipped for combat operations, they may also support a variety of peacetime missions, to include range surface clearance operations of active U.S. Army installations, EOD and UXO operations in support of civilian law enforcement agencies, and support to the

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for protection of VIPs.

Mission

On order, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) deploys and conducts operations ISO Combatant Commanders or other government agencies to counter CBRNE and WMD threats.

Subordinate units

* 52nd Ordnance Group, Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD),

Fort Campbell Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astride the Kentucky–Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee (post address is located in Kentucky). Fort Campbell is home to the 101st Airborne Divi ...

** Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Fort Campbell ** 184 Ord Bn DUI

184th Ordnance Battalion (EOD) The 184th Ordnance Battalion (EOD) of the United States Army accomplishes the explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) support activity. The EOD battalion operates under United States Army Forces Command (52nd Ordnance Group (EOD)) command and control wit ...

, Fort Campbell *** Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Fort Campbell *** 38th Ordnance Company (EOD),

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*** 49th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell *** 717th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell *** 723rd Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell *** 744th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell *** 756th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Stewart *** 789th Ordnance Company (EOD),

Fort Benning Fort Benning is a United States Army post near Columbus, Georgia, adjacent to the Alabama– Georgia border. Fort Benning supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve component soldiers, retirees and civilian employee ...

192nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD),

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*** Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Fort Bragg *** 18th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Bragg *** 28 Ord Co beret flash

28th Ordnance Company (EOD) (Airborne), Fort Bragg *** 55th Ordnance Company (EOD),

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722nd Ordnance Company (EOD) (Airborne), Fort Bragg *** 754th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Drum *** 760th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Drum *** 767th Ordnance Co beret flash

767th Ordnance Company (EOD) (Airborne), Fort Bragg

Lineage

# Constituted 20 December 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Group # Activated 27 December 1943 at Camp Hood, Texas # Reorganized and redesigned 27 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Service Group # Reorganized and redesigned 20 December 1946 as the 52d Ordnance Composite Group # Inactivated 30 June 1948 in Austria # Redesignated 8 January 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Ordnance Group, and allotted to the Regular Army # Activated 28 January 1952 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina # Inactivated 16 May 1955 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina # Activated 2 December 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina # Inactivated 20 October 1967 in Vietnam # Redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52D Ordnance Group (EOD), and activated at Fort Gillem, Georgia # Reassigned in early 2009 to Fort Campbell, KY with 184 OD BN (EOD)

Honors

Campaign participation credit

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Decorations

# Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) # Streamer Embroidered VIETNAM 1966.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.campbell.army.mil/units/52EOD/Pages/52EOD.aspx Ordnance 052 Military units and formations established in 1943 Explosive ordnance disposal units and formations Bomb disposal Ordnance units and formations of the United States Army