{"id":3525,"date":"2012-02-16T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:56:21","slug":"eodmu-5-holds-field-training-exercise-in-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/eodmu-5-holds-field-training-exercise-in-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"EODMU 5 holds field training exercise in Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns116568.jpg\" alt=\"Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 3rd Class Jacob Still, of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5, takes photos to identify unexploded ordnance during a five-day joint field training exercise with the Guam National Guard in Yigo Feb. 9.  (U.S. NAVY\/GABRIELLE BLAKE)\" width=\"100\" height=\"71\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 <strong>By GABRIELLE BLAKE<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class<br \/>\nJoint Region Edge Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SANTA RITA, Guam-Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 went through a five-day joint field-training exercise with the Guam National Guard in Yigo, Guam Feb. 6-9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came out and set out an expeditionary base camp and then had three EOD teams deployed out to do problems that they would normally encounter in our area of operations,\u201d said EODMU 5 battalion leading chief petty officer Senior Chief Explosive Ordnance Technician Isaac Callicrate.<\/p>\n<p>The training included counter improvised explosive device training, training-to-combat terrorism and working with GUNG to do security patrols and other integration training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now there&#8217;s no one person or one command in the areas where we have conflicts, it is all a joint effort,\u201d Callicrate said. \u201cSo we try to get the joint concept as soon as we can in the training cycle to make sure that our sailors are used to working with the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EOD technicians set up a combat control center where networks and communication systems were put in place, providing reach-back capability and voice and data communications between the battalion, GUNG, and the EOD teams in the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was definitely a learning experience,\u201d Information Systems Technician 1st Class Donny Athan said. \u201cI never tried to coordinate two different services moving together, working together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EODMU 5 deploys and employs tailored EOD units to locate, identify, render safe and remove conventional, chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, and improvised explosive hazards in order to enable access for joint, naval, and special operations forces within the Western Pacific Theater of Operations and elsewhere, when directed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 By GABRIELLE BLAKE Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joint Region Edge Staff SANTA RITA,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}