Some of the highlights of the newsletter are as follow: Missions in (9) different countries; Qatar; Embassy missions in Baghdad; Assisting in the training of bomb sniffing dogs; Veteran's Day 5K in bomb suits (typical EOD stuff); and IED awareness and lanes training for foreign forces.

1. Initial success
or total failure
202nd OD CO (EOD)
Where is
the 202nd? Letter Bomb
I s s u e 2 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 1
Kuwait
Iraq
Qatar
THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT!
Jordan
Family and friends, the morale of the folks
Saudi Arabia
Chain of Command and in the company. Your
Pakistan
fans of the 202nd Ex- thoughtful efforts have
Yemen plosive Ordnance Dis- brought smiles to the
Afghanistan posal Company, here’s faces of the soldiers
Lebanon
your copy of The Letter and warmth to their
Bomb for November. A hearts. Support from
big THANK YOU goes our friends, family and
out to the Allatoona neighbors back home is
High School Football the driving force here
Program and the 202nd and is a reminder to the
Inside this EOD Family Readiness troops of the reasons
issue:
Group. Your contribu- Allatoona, GA High why they are here and
tions in the form of care School Football Logo. the sacrifices they have
Care Pack- 1
packages and motiva- Go Bucs! made.
ages Rock!
tional cards have
Geography 1
and culture played a huge part in
The Bagh- 2
daddy
Bunch
Coins 2 Life in the Region, QATAR
Qatari Blast 3
Grill master 3 Qatar has the second yan rebellion and over- peoples of the country
Jordan 4 highest per capita in- throw of dictator Gad- are 40% Arab, 18% In-
come in the world. Most hafi. The countries ma- dian and various other
recently, Qatar played a jor resources are, (no nationalities. The coun-
significant part politi- big surprise), petroleum try is about 78% Muslim
cally in the recent Lib- and natural gas. The and 9% Christian.

2. Page 2
The Baghdaddy Bunch
*“The Baghdad Embassy analysis as well as digging The recent decision to
Det. Has been doing well, up and blowing up a dud draw down United States
with explosive incidents rocket that landed feet Forces-Iraq by the Presi-
averaging once every three from the British Embassy. dent will mean an end to
days. One notable event our mission in Iraq soon.
was when rockets hit both “EOD arrived, assessed
the US and British Embas- the situation, dug up part The 202nd EOD has dem-
sies”. of the rocket and then onstrated much knowledge
SSG Hutton blew it in place. No dam- and courage in, often
Our teams at the New Em- age to the embassy and times, very stressful situa-
standing in a bassy Compound, Bagh- tions while in Iraq.
there were smiles and
hole that used dad spent a tireless night
handshakes all
and most of the next day
to be a rocket. around”.
conducting post blast *SSG Hutton’s comments Quoted.
The 202nd EOD Official Deployment Coin
You may have noticed ment. So far, we know the other side will have
that the Explosive Ord- that the mascot for the the mascot with a unit
nance Disposal commu- coin will be the Trojan motto. The coins will be
nity is big on personal- and the shape of the coin provided for all of the
ized coins. Well, the will be the shape of a members of the unit
202nd EOD is in the de- hand grenade. One side while additional coins will
velopment stage of a of the coin will have mis- be available for purchase
coin to signify this deploy- sion specific data and by anyone interested.
202nd O D CO (E OD)

3. Issue 2 Page 3
Qatari Blast
The Qatar The Qatar de- *”At the MWR hosted Halloween costume social,
guys dressedtachment has the teams went trick or treating with the robots.
a robot up for
been busy this The robots also participated unsuccessfully in a
the Annual
Halloween past month costume contest and even displayed some fancy
costume training with the moves on the dance floor”. (This gives new
contest.
K9 handlers. In meaning to the popular 80s dance, the robot).
order to train
Further, SPC Lopeman and SSG Tinney entered,
the bomb sniffing dogs,
won and broke the all-time record on the Run to
trace amounts of explosives
Dubai contest. “The concept was to run 233
are placed in random set-
miles on the outdoor trail or treadmill equaling
tings so that the dogs can
the distance to Dubai”. Essentially, the guys ran
attempt to locate it.
on average 14 miles per day for a month.
THE 202
DOES THE
VETERAN’S
DAY
5K...WITH
BOMB!
SUITS!
I’m pleased to announce that
SGT Allen is officially the Non-
commissioned Officer in charge
of THE GRILL!

4. Recently at the Joint Training Center,
Amman, Jordan, the 202nd trained
Jordanian Armed Forces. SGT Payton
and SGT Smith provided hands-on
classes in improvised explosive de-
vice (IED) awareness and set-up IED
lanes for the foreign soldiers. The
training ended with a full spectrum
training operation that went on for
ten days. The Jordanians were very
pleased with the training received by
our team.
Mrs. Hood’s margarita night
with her husband, SGT Hood.