Airmen at Eglin AFB, Fla., came together April 21 to honor the six explosive ordnance disposal airmen who have been killed in action in Southwest Asia since January 2006, reports Capt. Chrissy Cuttita with the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency. The names of those six and eight other US military EOD specialists were added to the list of 196 names etched in stone on a special EOD memorial. All six airmen graduated from the Naval School of EOD, a DOD school located at Eglin. “EOD is a family,” said CMSgt. Jeff Schley, Air Combat Command’s EOD functional manager, adding that he “personally knew two of them. We train together, fight together, and mourn together.”
The U.S. sent Air Force F-16s over central Syria in a show of force following the Dec. 13 killing of two U.S. Army Soldiers and one American civilian interpreter by a gunman linked to the Islamic State group.
