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Explosive operations involving only demolition explosives requires what medical time frames
- Medical support within 30 min
- Trauma facility within 60 min via ground or air
Explosive operations involving only practice munitions that include expl/fire hazards requires what medical respond times
- EMT-P (paramedic) on site or within 30 min
- Trauma care within 30 min
- definitive care within 60 min via ground or air
Exp operations involving live munitions (other than demo exp) requires what medical resp times
- EMT-P on site
- Trauma care within 30 min
- definitive care within 60 min via ground or air
Do not take non-DOD toxic or hazardous materials to military installations for storage or disposal unless
- the situation is clearly an emergency or lifesaving operation
- formal agreement exists with other federal agencies
What are the two levels of EOD response and what is the difference
Level 1 - immediate response
Level 2 - imminent and substantial endangerment
A level 2 response can be delayed without compromising safety or increasing risk to property, health or the environment
Who can determine if a situation requires a level 1, level 2 or no EOD emergency response
On scene EOD team leader
Who can determine when a response action is complete?
Only the on scene EOD team leader
What are level 1 responses exempt from?
- RCRA permitting
- Department of Transportation manifesting for moving to a safe disposal area
EOD can not conduct what types of munitions responses?
Planned munition responses, but they can response to munition responses that occur during planned responses
What are EOD response times?
- normal duty hours- enroute to site within 30 minutes of call, or approval from Wing CC
- off duty- resounding to scene within 60 minutes
What are the 9 mission sets
- Aerospace Systems/Vehicles and Conventional Munitions
- Counter IED
- Combatting WMD
- Nuclear Weapon Response
- UXO recovery operations
- Operation Range Clearance
- Defense Support to Civil Authorities
- Irregular Warfare
- VIPP Support
Guidelines for working Counter IED
- EOD teams do not search in support of bomb threats
- Use diagnostics and remote procedures first: hand entry is last resort
- EOD teams are not responsible for the custody of explosive material during criminal investigations
What types of emergency munition support other than operational range activities should EOD teams respond to?
- to ensure public safety
- to identify unknown munitions
- when there are possible chemical munitions involved
Can EOD teams assist in the investigation of subsurface anomalies identified by geological equipment?
No, even if at a munitions response site
According to TO 00-5-3 EOD units performing munitions test and eval support must receive rsp procedures how many days prior to scheduled delivery?
60 days
Incident reports must be submitted in what time frame on EODIMS?
Normal Response- 5 working days
DSCA - 72 hours
Range Clearance - 15 working days
Minimum hours of EOD proficiency training per week
16 hours in a 5 day work week not including PT/TDY/Range Clearance/Deployed/On leave
Explosive locally written instructions follow what rules
- approved by sq commander
- coordinated with weapons safety office and all involved organizations
- available at the work site
- written in language workers understand
- briefed to all work workers prior to operations
91-201
Are locally written instructions required for EOD emergency operations?
No, for level 1 emergencies
91-201
What is required to be in locally written explosive instructions?
- personell Limits
- explosive limits
- exact locations operations can be done
- safety requirements
- step by step procedures
- emergency actions
91-201