Explosive Ordnance Disposal

AIR FORCE BD/EOD TECHNICIANS HONOR ROLL
"WE REMEMBER"

The names listed below are of those individuals who gave their lives in the performance of their duties as Bomb Disposal (BD)/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians. In most cases, the individuals listed are not classified as heroes because they were killed while performing their duties as BD/EOD technicians. It really makes little difference whether they were called heroes or not; for each and every one of them was a member of a very special organization. The BD/EOD organization has always been very unique in the U.S. Air Force because it carries out its mission during both war and peace-time. When the call for help goes out, EOD can be counted on to respond regardless of how great the danger might be.

A2C Nelson L. Anderson	18 Dec 1957	Perished as a student of the NAVSCOLEOD as the result of an explosion of a M103 fuze along with U.S. Army PVT Michael Costagliola.
TSgt Claude H. Bunch, Sgt Aaron G. Fidiam, Jr. SSgt David L. Hubbard Jr. Capt Ernest McFeron	16 May 1965	The team perished when chemical delay fuzed bombs detonated while they attempted to render safe after an aircraft crash at Bien Hoa AB, Republic of South Viet Nam.
SSgt Ralph T. Berry	31 Jan 1968	Perished while assigned to Dahang AB, RVN during a rocket attack.
TSgt Richard D. Milton	7 Apr 1972	Assigned to the 432d Munitions Maintenance Squadron, Udorn AFLO, Thailand, perished while performing EOD operations at a classified location.
TSgt James D. Farmer	16 Jan 1973	Assigned to the 15th Field Maintenance Squadron, Hickam AFB, HI, perished while performing an extremely hazardous and dangerous EOD operation at a classified location.
SMSgt Gerald J. Stryzak SrA Raymond J. Bianchi II A1C Blaine J. Meyer	12 Nov 1980	Assigned to the 27th Equipment Squadron, Cannon AFB, NM, perished when their C-141 aircraft crashed during landing during a tactical response deployment in Cairo-West, Egypt. The Civil Engineer EOD Flight of the Year Award is named in honor of SMSgt Stryzak.
A1C Dustin W. Olson	12 Jul 1994	Assigned to the 649th Civil Engineer Squadron, Hill AFB, UT, perished in a vehicle accident performing EOD duties while enroute to observe the effectiveness of air-delivered submunitions on a test target on the Utah Test and Training Range.
TSgt Walter M. Moss	29 Mar 2006	Sergeant Moss, a 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight technician, was killed in an explosion while performing safing operations near Baghdad March 29. He was the first Airman from Sather AB to be killed in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
MSgt Brad A. Clemmons	21 Aug 2006	Sergeant Clemmons died Aug. 21 when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq.
Capt Kermit O. Evans	3 Dec 2006	Captain Kermit Evans, commander of the 27th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosives Ordnance Disposal Flight, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. was killed in an emergency helicopter landing Dec. 3 near the shore of Lake Qadisiyah in western Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Captain Evans was one of 16 people aboard the Marine CH-46 helicopter and one of four servicemembers killed as a result of the landing. He is survived by a wife, Perneatha and 13-month-old son, Kermit Jr.
TSgt Timothy R. Weiner SrA Elizabeth A. Loncki SrA Daniel B. Miller	7 Jan 2007	Senior Airman Elizabeth A. Loncki, Tech. Sgt. Timothy R. Weiner, and Senior Airman Daniel B. Miller Jr. were explosive ordnance disposal Airmen serving in Iraq and were killed defusing a car bomb when it detonated Jan. 7. They were deployed from the 775th Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
SrA William Newman	7 Jun 2007	Airman Newman, an explosive ordnance disposal technician assigned to the 15th Civil Engineer Squadron, was killed June 7 by an improvised explosive device, which detonated while he was supporting Army and Iraqi security forces near Mishna, Iraq.
TSgt Anthony L Capra	9 April 2008	TSgt Anthony L. Capra, 31, died April 9 near Golden Hills, Iraq, of wounds suffered when he encountered an improvised explosive device during his 107th combat mission of this tour.