They were deployed as part of an advance search team in the operations squadron of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Task Forces, based in Bicester.

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The Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Munitions and Search Training Regiment (DEMS Trg) Regiment will bring together 4, 000 service personnel from the Army, Royal Navy and RAF each year.

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She was a member of the explosive ordinance disposal team.

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In April last year, Capt Lisa Jade Head, from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps died in a UK hospital from injuries suffered in an explosion while clearing roadside bombs in the Nahr-e Saraj area.

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Those that use photovoltaic collectors are also challenged on environmental grounds because they are manufactured using highly toxic heavy metals, explosive gases and carcinogenic solvents that present end-of-life disposal hazards.

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As it turned out, authorities' decision to rely on every tool at their disposal was a wise one: Dykes had planted an explosive device in a ventilation pipe he'd told negotiators to use to communicate with him on his property in the rural Alabama community of Midland City, and also placed another explosive device inside the bunker, the FBI said in a statement late Tuesday.

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Officers found an "improvised explosive device" at the scene, which led to the evacuation of nearby properties until army bomb disposal experts made it safe.

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