But American officials have said the types of ordnance that have been publicly disclosed so far have not matched known chemical ordnance in the former Iraqi inventory.
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Specialist Slape, a National Guard soldier, was assigned to the 430th Ordnance Company in Washington, N.C., an explosive ordnance disposal unit that had been in Afghanistan since April.
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US funding for clearance of unexploded ordnance and victims' assistance has steadily grown since 2010, when Congress mandated that the US government give at least $5 million for unexploded ordnance removal.
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" And he was like, "No, it's Explosives Ordnance Disposal.
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"They're spreading this knowledge all over the world," said Ernest Barajas Jr., a former Marine explosive ordnance disposal technician who has worked with ordnance-clearing organizations in areas occupied by the Islamic State.
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Collette was assigned to the 242nd Ordnance Battalion, 71st Explosive Ordnance Group in Fort Carson, Colorado, and Lindsay was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) out of Fort Carson.
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RAMBO is an acronym for Rapid Additively Manufactured Ballistics Ordnance.
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Finan was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3.
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Corporal Schaaff was an aircraft ordnance technician from Washington State.
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Mapmakers Ordnance Survey say the mountain has not physically grown.
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KARL-ERBO KAGENECKMunich * The Economist highlights the continuing challenge that unexploded ordnance (UXO) and landmines pose around the world and the difficulty of clearing these hazards safely ("How unexploded ordnance is cleared", July 25th).
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Ordnance disposal teams were sent to Folly Beach, South Carolina, on Sunday morning after a beach walker discovered old military ordnance washed up on the beach, Andrew Gilreath, city director of public safety, told CNN.
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She said one local man was killed when some ordnance exploded.
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John Fry was an explosive ordnance disposal technician in the Marines.
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In one house, ordnance, including explosives, was piled in the kitchen.
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Much of the ground there is still contaminated by unexploded ordnance.
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And booby traps and unexploded ordnance could take years to clear.
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In the Balkans, including Serbia, 150,000 unexploded pieces of ordnance remain.
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Pilots would only drop ordnance with Afghan government approval, he said.
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That's the largest shipment of ordnance the unit has gotten since 22014.
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Second World War ordnance has been found in the Thames in Newham.
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Vaishnava denied the soldiers had forced a civilian to bury unexploded ordnance.
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The amount of unexploded ordnance in Laos hinders development and poverty reduction.
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There has been little progress in the development of better ordnance detection.
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Bombs and other ordnance were dropped on thousands of villages and hamlets.
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That would pinpoint the ordnance to a one- to three-meter area.
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An aviation or ordnance-disposal expert might recognize this profile as lethal.
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The plan is to clear the province of unexploded ordnance by 2025.
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The flooding could make the ordnance harder for decontamination teams to find.
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Officials told CNN affiliate WCSC the ordnance appeared to be Civil War cannonballs.
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There are tropical diseases, landmines—unexploded-ordnance officers are deployed too—and accidents.
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Heidi J. Hoyle, the Army's chief of ordnance, herself an E.O.D.-qualified officer.
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In reality, it is more like dropping barrelfuls of ordnance from 26,2000 feet.
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A team of surveyors is also looking at unexploded ordnance, Mr. Lanzer said.
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Khan was an ordnance officer with the 201st Forward Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division.
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The size of the loan or the cost of the ordnance was not disclosed.
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We met aviation ordnance man Ronald Canady, who is on his third carrier deployment.
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Just two months ago, the Army selected General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems inc.
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The jewel bearings would be used in Defense Department ordnance and in Bulova watches.
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Yes, an international team of experts is working to defuse both types of ordnance.
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Seven lower-stage elevators will move ordnance between the lower levels and main deck.
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In the United States, the Navy's explosive ordnance disposal force handles maritime explosive hazards.
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I asked his commander if he had been trained in EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal).
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Dawson, 32, is one of just over three dozen highly trained explosive-ordnance disposal technicians who currently serve at the 28th Ordnance Company, the Army's bomb-disposal unit solely devoted to supporting the 75th Ranger Regiment, a large Special Operations light-infantry unit.
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Chris Wesson, a cartographic designer with Ordnance Survey, says that sense of recognition is intentional.
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About 30 percent of the ordnance failed to explode, leaving a dangerous and costly legacy.
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The most common ordnance used is a 500-pound guided bomb called the GBU-38.
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Some rifles made by companies such as Patriot Ordnance Factory and Daniel Defense fire larger .
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Today, the jungle has returned, swallowing the scars of war and America's unexploded ordnance (UXO).
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The Ordnance Department of the United States Army commissioned Mr. Rockwell to do a painting.
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It is a Black Rain Ordnance AR-15, not a Black Range Ordinance AR-15.
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Then the ship would call in an explosive ordnance disposal, or E.O.D., team to respond.
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As the soldiers started working together, an enlisted engineer sneered at the ordnance disposal team.
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Despite this diversity, these robots primarily take on two roles: surveillance and explosive-ordnance disposal.
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HALO says the land contains around 2,600 mines and an unknown number of other unexploded ordnance.
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Sumlin, 30 was an explosive ordnance disposal specialist in the Army from June 2007 to Dec.
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Ordnance Survey (OS) and Intel subsidiary Mobileye have launched trials to map roadside infrastructure in Britain.
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No one at Facebook, however, knew exactly when or where the unexploded ordnance would go off.
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Collin J. Schaaff, 22, was an aircraft ordnance technician who joined the Marine Corps in 2013.
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Swept hundreds of miles along in the waters would be unexploded ordnance, chemicals, bodies and buildings.
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"Agent Orange, unexploded ordnance, the war crimes committed — all of this had to be addressed," Leaf said.
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Task force commander, Eduardo del Rosario, said delays were caused by debris, unexploded ordnance and unsafe structures.
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People are also being wounded by unexploded ordnance hidden under the rubble of their homes, ICRC said.
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In 2010 Congress mandated that the U.S. government give at least $5 million for unexploded ordnance removal.
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If you've ever held an unfolded Ordnance Survey map in your hands, the similarities will be immediate.
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In World War II, American bombers repeatedly strayed into Swiss airspace, dropping ordnance and causing significant damage.
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They are also scared to search their ruined homes because of the unexploded ordnance in the wreckage.
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It is capable of flying at subsonic speeds and can carry nuclear or precision guided conventional ordnance.
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He was an explosive-ordnance disposal expert, and the ground around the blast needed to be cleared.
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He was a master Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician and achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer.
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American officials say that around 2 to 3 percent of ordnance dropped in airstrikes does not explode.
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They can carry a mixed load of 35 tons of ordnance that includes bombs, mines and missiles.
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Using the weapon, called the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, presents special challenges.
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"An explosive ordnance disposal team is at the scene as a precaution in the interest of safety."
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CCSO Bomb and Air Force Explosive Teams still on scene examining these old civil war ordnance #chsnews pic.twitter.
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The bomb contains 55.893 tons of explosives and is also known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb.
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The size of the ordnance was determined in part by reviewing photographs of bomb craters, the group said.
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And because even ordnance-free land tends to be too rocky for tackling, most matches are touch only.
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At the moment, removal experts can get the six-digit coordinates of unexploded ordnance from American military officials.
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Work to search and clear mines and unexploded ordnance was still underway, the army said in a statement.
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The task force's jobs include explosive ordnance disposal, naval coastal warfare, expeditionary logistics support forces and riverine forces.
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At the joint-service explosive ordnance disposal school at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
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American strategists who would remain too singularly focused upon comparative nuclear ordnance could similarly miss other grievous hazards.
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Although the Philippines military knew civilians remained in their homes, ordnance exploded nearby repeatedly over the past week.
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At the joint-service explosive ordnance disposal school at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
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That's roughly 1,500 sailors who are trained in deep-sea diving, explosive ordnance disposal, parachuting and land warfare.
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Leng Channak enters the Tonlé Sap river at the location of a French barge thought to contain unexploded ordnance.
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The main battle area in downtown Marawi remains off limits, pending the removal of booby traps and unexploded ordnance.
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Russia had already helped to clear unexploded ordnance left behind by NATO's bombing during the Kosovo war of 1999.
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The Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or "Mother Of All Bombs", as the media quickly dubbed it, weighs 10 tonnes.
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Causey was a part of the 760th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, a team dedicated to finding and disarming IEDs.
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This week, Norwegian explosive-ordnance-disposal divers returned to the ship to remove the missile launchers from its foredeck.
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We were confined to a headland bounded by fragile endangered species, and more threateningly, by rattlesnakes and unexploded ordnance.
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Because the plane was carrying weapons and small-arms ammunition, an ordnance disposal team is working in the area.
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This year, Congress allotted $19.5 million for unexploded ordnance clearance in Laos, thanks in large part to Vermont Sen.
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"Some of the biggest victims of unexploded ordnance are children, because [the explosives] often look like toys," Yar says.
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On the night of the bombing, at around 2 A.M. , he heard the thud of ordnance on the mountain.
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Bullets and tracers from Smoyer's gun smashed into the car; ordnance from another source also flew through the intersection.
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The fortress in the sky is able to fly long distances and carry around 70,000 pounds of mixed ordnance.
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The ordnance removal technicians worked ahead of us, in coordination with the bulldozer, the tank and a few Humvees.
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That incident ended up being unrelated: Military-style ordnance that someone had donated had ignited and injured a worker.
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At least 133 civilians have been killed, along with the two de-miners, by the unexploded ordnance left behind.
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How do you describe what an ordnance specialist does to civilians who have no idea what an MOS is?
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Above, one of the bombs, a GBU-43 or Massive Ordnance Air Blast, at an air base in Florida.
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More conventional ordnance dropped by American, NATO and Afghan forces in the years since has added to the threat.
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Roughly one-fifth of Vietnam is estimated to contain the mines or other unexploded ordnance, such as cluster bombs.
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The video in the original tweet shows a B-2 stealth bomber dropping a GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
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He's also studying for the military's equivalent of the SATs, and hopes to one day work in explosive ordnance disposal.
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A war worker cleans inside the barrel of a naval gun at an Ordnance Works factory in London, circa 1918.
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For the 28th Ordnance Company and other units, the grinding operational tempo over the last decade has had tragic consequences.
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Unfortunately, while ordnance from the war is a fascinating part of American history, it can also be a serious hazard.
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Thursday's bombing was the first time the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb had been used in combat.
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Around Marawi, volunteers for the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action distributed leaflets to returning evacuees warning them of unexploded ordnance.
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Linville had been an explosive ordnance disposal tech in the Marine Corps until an IED sent him home from Afghanistan.
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Mines and unexploded ordnance left from that war have inflicted more than 100,000 casualties since the last American troops departed.
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"Eighty-four percent of victims from unexploded ordnance were children," Danielle Bell, UNAMA human rights director, said in the report.
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Both the rebels and the regime violated the terms of the truce, lobbing ordnance and explosive drones at each other.
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But this assertion hangs on a thin thread, as the unexploded ordnance and defoliants still injure and kill people today.
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Sean Kido, the head of an explosive ordnance disposal diving and salvage task group in the Naval Forces Central Command.
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But the explosives in suicide vests and belts, he added, were compounds, including RDX and TNT, extracted from conventional ordnance.
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To my right, signs alerted visitors in English and Spanish about the presence of unexploded ordnance and lasers in use.
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Much as teleworkers venture forth in search of groceries, ships at sea demand regular supplies of fuel, stores and ordnance.
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Deaths or injuries caused by ordnance that does not explode immediately but blows up later are also on the rise.
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The strike was the first combat use of what is formally named the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast.
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But Afghans also suffer at the hands of government and allied forces, sometimes as they come across their unexploded ordnance.
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I don't want another young person like me to fall victim to an unexploded mine or any kind of ordnance.
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After graduation, Mr. Sobell and Mr. Elitcher worked for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance and shared an apartment in Washington.
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More than 20073,22007 people have been killed or injured by unexploded ordnance in Laos since the end of the bombing.
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Divers practice recovering a large inert ordnance using airbags to raise it from the water off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
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Artillery shells, mines, and other ordnance still litter Cambodia, years after the Vietnam War and the fall of the Khmer Rouge.
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The Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) was dropped in Afghanistan's remote Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border at 7 p.m.
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Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, has created what might be the first map of Mars designed for the average person.
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For the sake of security and reliability, the US and most other countries design specific fuzes for each type of ordnance.
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The bombardment included barrel bombs, improvised ordnance made from oil drums filled with explosives and dropped from helicopters, the monitor said.
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To start his maps, Bell says that he works from an open source Ordnance Survey map, and begins drawing by hand.
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"Our technicians are unable to access the [ordnance] at this time due to the approaching high tide," police told WCSC-TV.
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"The United States is helping Laos clear unexploded ordnance, which poses a threat to people and hampers economic development," it said.
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Rifles made by Phoenix-based Patriot Ordnance Factory come with American flags and "God Bless America" on their ejection port covers.
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Last year he partnered with the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) to document the organization's mine- and ordnance-clearing operations.
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Every acre is weighed down by more than 3,000 tons of rubble, much of it laced with explosives and unexploded ordnance.
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In 2012, the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan said unexploded ordnance accounted for three times as many casualties as mines.
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How might Obama's presence in the country, or whatever he might say there, affect that issue of unexploded ordnance, or UXO?
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In September, US military aircraft dropped more ordnance in Afghanistan than they have since October 2010, according to Air Force statistics.
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Some of the weapons I track are the ones I first encountered as an explosive-ordnance-disposal technician on active duty.
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An aside: John Ismay, a staff writer for At War, was an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the United States Navy.
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The explosive ordnance disposal unit "found a suspicious bomb inside a toilet, 15 centimeters long, 10 centimeters in diameter," police said.
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They include bomb technicians, an explosive ordnance disposal team, and an explosives-trained dog and handler, Chief Art Acevedo said Monday.
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The latest incident turned out to be a Goodwill worker who was injured by simulated military ordnance in a donation box.
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The explosive ordnance disposal unit "found a suspicious bomb inside a toilet, 15 centimeters long, 10 centimeters in diameter," police said.
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He later noted that "there are ordnance disposal teams in the area" who may be causing controlled explosions throughout the search.
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The US Coast Guard had established a 1,500-yard safety zone around the unexploded ordnance, Coast Guard spokeswoman Ali Flockerzi said.
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With heavy ordnance going off all around, Iraq's specialized counterterrorism forces have been tasked with painstakingly clearing neighborhoods like Mosul Jidideh.
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Plainclothes police and the Singapore Army's Explosives and Ordnance Disposal unit were seen working to prepare for a high-security event.
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Special Operations Task Force 102 — composed of soldiers with the 10th Group, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 9th Psychological Operations Battalion and 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) — earned 12 Purple Hearts, 15 Army Commendations medals with Valor devices, seven Bronze Star medals with Valor devices, and five Silver Star medals, according to Stars and Stripes.
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"This exercise provided important opportunities for realistic at-sea training with live ordnance, conditions that cannot be duplicated otherwise," US Navy Capt.
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The photos below, which show a line of tanks, missile firings, and helicopters dropping fake ordnance, likely won't help calm any nerves.
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The river banks were once a war zone between Israel and Jordan, and were littered with thousands of mines and unexploded ordnance.
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On Friday, two OV-10 close-air support aircraft resumed bomb runs, circling the city then diving steeply before dropping their ordnance.
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Helicopters were scanning an area of between 3 km and 4 km (about 2 miles) around the site, for any unexploded ordnance.
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The Ordnance Department argued, successfully, to Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur that the change would be expensive and present logistics challenges.
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A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," was dropped at 7:32 p.m.
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Mr. Obama, administration officials said, would pledge millions of dollars in additional funding to help clear unexploded ordnance from the Laotian countryside.
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Chief Dayton was serving with Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve and was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Two.
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Currently, the United States military is clearing unexploded ordnance, mines and other booby traps from Raqqa just to make it minimally habitable.
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Some 100,000 tons of ordnance were dropped around Khe Sanh itself, turning the region into a wild moonscape of pulverized red soil.
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It was not clear who laid the mine, but jihadist groups are known to deploy this kind of ordnance in the region.
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He was an explosive ordnance disposal technician, a member of the elite bomb squad, as was I, and everyone called him Scotty.
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How much damage an initial attack would inflict depends on how many are used and on how much of the ordnance explodes.
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"There are still stragglers and the structures are still unsafe because of unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices," he said on radio.
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A number of Ordnance Survey vehicles have also been fitted with Mobileye 8 Connect technology to collect data on the roads of Britain.
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Now the 3-D printed gun community is approaching the next controversial milestone in that progression of printable ordnance: a semi-automatic weapon.
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ISIS found ways to attach weapons to those drones, dropping mortars and other ordnance on US-allied forces, which has harmed Western forces.
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The Charleston County Sheriff's Office said that the US Air Force Explosive Team detonated a number of the ordnance where they were found.
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"That particular dummy capsule did not contain any nuclear material and there is no suspected radiological safety hazard from this ordnance," it said.
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Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, has teamed up with aeronautic engineers to develop a solar powered High Altitude Pseudo Satellite, or HAPS.
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Roads into the city are lined with warning signs alerting travelers to booby traps and unexploded ordnance that encircles much of the city.
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Because the plane was carrying small-arms ammunition and weapons, an explosive ordnance disposal team was at the crash site, military officials said.
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Japanese and South Korean fighter jets carried out sequenced missions with the U.S. bombers but no ordnance was dropped, the Air Force said.
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It was also reportedly the first time a Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed "mother of all bombs," was used in battle.
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Kerry, a Vietnam vet, said the United States was also trying to help Cambodia clear unexploded ordnance left behind from the Vietnam War.
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Mr Kerry also touched on "painful reminders" of the Vietnam war, including unexploded American ordnance that continues to take Cambodian lives and limbs.
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The attack has drawn on ordnance more destructive than anything previously used against the area, and many buildings have been destroyed, residents say.
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Mine-clearing organization Halo says Afghanistan has been left littered with unexploded ordnance, with more than 23,500 casualties recorded between 1979 and 2015.
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"A place of serenity, a place to relax, a place to have some fun," explains McGuinness, a former Navy explosive ordnance disposal technician.
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These hard-hitting aircraft can carry up to 70,000 pounds of varied ordnance and can be deployed to carry out various missions, including
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The stolen software included the Projectile Rocket Ordnance Design and Analysis System (PRODAS), a program from Vermont's Arrow Tech used to design projectiles.
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His dreams replayed scenes from 11 years of active-duty service as a member of a US Air Force explosive ordnance disposal unit.
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Despite the decline in the toll since the 1990s, lingering ordnance continues to kill or maim an average of 303 people a day.
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When they're not deployed, US Army explosive ordnance disposal technicians are being called on more and more to support VIPs and local authorities.
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Last week, the ramps, each one about 1,500 feet long, were wired with a total of 944 bits of ordnance called line charges.
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" Colonel Brawner said soldiers must "rescue the remaining hostages and make sure there are no stragglers or I.E.D.s of unexploded ordnance left behind.
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Wearing military-style regalia, General Hifter said that all that remained was to clear battle-scarred neighborhoods of land mines and unexploded ordnance.
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In 1974, the Pentagon sought a submunition that would perform all three functions and entered a contract with Aerojet Ordnance of Downey, Calif.
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The DoD fails to lay out guidelines for the use of these weapons and ways to minimize unintended harm stemming from unexploded ordnance.
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It is U.S. made and transferred ordnance that is carried on these planes and are dropped on civilian and infrastructure targets inside Yemen.
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"B-2s with those massive ordnance penetrators" would be involved, Lamrani said, referring to the MOAB—the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped.
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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, whose acronym has inspired the nickname "Mother of All Bombs" or "MOAB," weighs over 21,000 pounds.
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Children also use metal detectors to find scrap metal to sell, often searching former battlefields or farmland where stray dud ordnance can be found.
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Martin, who took up his post in mid-November, said it was difficult to know how much ordnance Islamic State has stockpiled in Mosul.
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In an attack on a Dallas Police station in 2015, officers also deployed an "Explosive Ordnance Robot" to dismantle one of the attackers bags.
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We've been seeing a lot of topographical maps of other planets lately, especially Mars, which was recently mapped out by the UK's Ordnance Survey.
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The U.S. military in April dropped a GBU-43B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb on a tunnel complex in Afghanistan used by ISIS fighters.
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"As peace negotiations continue, there is scope for the removal of these devices and other explosive ordnance to generate peace-building dividends," he said.
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Riddled with mines and unexploded ordnance, bombed out buildings, roads and bridges and airports, the repair bill would run into the billions of dollars.
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The three BDU-33s, non-explosive ordnance designed to simulate M1a-82 bombs, fell somewhere off Highway 129 near Suwannee Springs in northern Florida.
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Shiite militiamen had looted parts of Tikrit, the main hospital was destroyed, and unexploded ordnance lurked in areas that had been ravaged by combat.
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And in addition to homemade bombs, members have also begun discussing trying to find unexploded World War II ordnance to make improvised explosive devices.
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He is now an adviser to Vietnamese who as part of Project Renew are cleaning up unexploded ordnance and helping victims like Mr. Lai.
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American combat deployments ended in 1973 and all American personnel were removed from Vietnam by 1975, but the explosive ordnance and dangerous chemicals remained.
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It was not immediately clear whether the group had been targeted, or whether previously unexploded ordnance from heavy militia bombing might have been involved.
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You could be as anti-Iraq War as it gets, for instance, and still find yourself cheering on Jeremy Renner's Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit.
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After his time in the Secret Service as an ordnance specialist, he worked in weapons sales to law enforcement for the gun manufacturer SigArms.
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UKGI also manages the government's stakes in the Post Office and other public assets including mapping agency Ordnance Survey and the British Business Bank.
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That happened to me in the summer of 23, during my first week of training at the Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal school in Florida.
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The $4.867 billion sale includes the aircraft, 23 engines, radars and other avionics, air-to-air and air-to-ground ordnance and related equipment.
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The ordnance contains almost 0003,000 pounds of Composition H6, an explosive compound that is roughly one-third stronger than an equivalent weight of TNT.
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Cover: Policemen from Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit search for dangerous materials at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus in Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov.
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The US has provided about $80 million to Vietnam, $85 million to Laos, and $100 million to Cambodia to date for unexploded ordnance removal.
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The legacy of the bombing still lingers in such unexploded ordnance, although American and other foreign aid pays for most efforts to remove it.
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