TRAINING
training, and responding by delivering tailored education to the NATO and PfP (Partnership for Peace) community, focusing mainly on the ‘Defeat the Device’ pillar. The NATO EOD COE provides training and courses for a wide range of professionals in the EOD field. It currently offers Initial Explosive Ordnance Disposal Staff Officer Training (I EOD SOT), the Former Warsaw Pact Ammunition Course (FWP AC), the Homemade Explosive Awareness Course (HME AC) and the Ammunition Risk EOD Management Course (AREMC). Each course supports forces preparation and also furthers implementation of the NATO standardisation effort.
INITIAL EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL STAFF OFFICER TRAINING (I EOD SOT)
The aim of the I EOD SOT course is to train staff officers at the tactical and operational level in accordance with the S–2389 ‘Minimum Standards on Proficiency for EOD Personnel’ Annex F. The Programme of Instructions (POI) introduces officers to the areas of planning, command/control and coordination of EOD/IEDD operations on multinational deployment. Training duration is two weeks, including theory and three days’ practical experience in EOD staff officer duties. The training focuses on the dissemination of interoperability learnt from ATP-72 (A) ‘Interservice Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operations on Multinational
Deployments’. In addition to the lessons, attendees are familiarised with the related disciplines as well as with the C-IED principles described in the ‘Allied Joint Doctrine for Countering Improvised Explosive Devices’ publication AJP 3.15 (B). The NATO EOD COE has so far carried out four training runs: the first in May 2011, the second (a Mobile Training Team (MTT) in Bosnia and Herzegovina) in November 2011, the third in May 2012 and the fourth in October 2012. More than 40 officers from 10 NATO and two PfP countries (Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina) have attended the I EOD SOT.
The aftermath of an IED attack.
Former Warsaw Pact Ammunition Course (FWP AC), February 2012. counteriedreport.com
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