| 52D Ordnance Group (EOD) | |
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 Shoulder Sleeve Insignia
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| Active | 27 December 1943 – 30 June 1948 28 January 1952 – 16 May 1955 2 December 1965 – 20 October 1967 1 October 1990 – present |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Army |
| Type | Support |
| Role | Explosive Ordnance Disposal |
| Part of | 20TH CBRNE Command |
| HQ | Fort Campbell, KY |
| Commanders | |
| Commander | COL Matthew Kuhns |
The 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) is the command and control headquarters for all U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Battalions and Companies located east of the Mississippi River in the Continental United States (CONUS). The current command team consists of Colonel Matthew L. Kuhns and Command Sergeant Major Isaac J. Allender. Their command covers 184th and 192nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD), as well as the 63rd Chemical Company (CBRN). Subordinate units maintain EOD Response Teams, which evaluate, render safe, and remove conventional, chemical/biological, or nuclear ordnance, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs) which pose an immediate threat to public safety. While subordinate units are trained and equipped for combat operations, they may also support a variety of peacetime missions, to include range surface clearance operations of active U.S. Army installations, EOD and UXO operations in support of civilian law enforcement agencies, and support to the U.S. Secret Service for protection of VIPs.
Mission
On order, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) deploys and conducts operations ISO Combatant Commanders or other government agencies to counter CBRNE and WMD threats.
The 28th EOD Company is part of the 192nd EOD Battalion, 52nd EOD Group and 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, the U.S. Department of Defense’s premier all hazards formation. Headquartered on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, the 20th CBRNE Command is home to 75 percent of the active-duty U.S. Army EOD technicians and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) specialists, as well as the 1st Area Medical Laboratory, CBRNE Analytical and Remediation Activity, five Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordination Teams and three Nuclear Disablement Teams. The multifunctional command has units on 19 bases in 16 states. In June 2008, the 28th Ordnance Company (EOD) was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and directed by the commander of 20th CBRNE Command to assume all current and future support to the 75th Ranger Regiment, the U.S. Army’s premier direct action raid force. In 2012, the 28th EOD Company earned its status as the first ever Airborne EOD company.
Though they are not technically part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, which supports the secretive units of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) on missions, the soldiers of the 28th operate exclusively within its orbit. When JSOC units like SEAL Team 6 and Delta go out on missions, E.O.D. techs are always with them. In recent years, bomb-disposal soldiers from the 28th have also been diverted to support C.I.A. Ground Branch teams in remote parts of Afghanistan. Their job is to fight alongside these commandos while locating and defusing booby traps and improvised bombs, a critically important task in wars where those are the enemy’s primary weapons.
Subordinate units
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52nd Ordnance Group, Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Fort Campbell
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Fort Campbell
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184th Ordnance Battalion (EOD), Fort Campbell- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Fort Campbell
- 38th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Stewart
- 49th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell
- 717th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell
- 723rd Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell
- 744th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Campbell
- 756th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Stewart
- 789th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Benning
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192nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD), Fort Bragg- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Fort Bragg
- 18th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Bragg
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28th Ordnance Company (EOD) (Airborne), Fort Bragg - 55th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Belvoir
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722nd Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Bragg - 754th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Drum
- 760th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Drum
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767th Ordnance Company (EOD), Fort Bragg
Lineage
- Constituted 20 December 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Group
- Activated 27 December 1943 at Camp Hood, Texas
- Reorganized and redesigned 27 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Service Group
- Reorganized and redesigned 20 December 1946 as the 52d Ordnance Composite Group
- Inactivated 30 June 1948 in Austria
- Redesignated 8 January 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Ordnance Group, and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 28 January 1952 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Inactivated 16 May 1955 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Activated 2 December 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Inactivated 20 October 1967 in Vietnam
- Redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52D Ordnance Group (EOD), and activated at Fort Gillem, Georgia
- Reassigned in early 2009 to Fort Campbell, KY with 184 OD BN (EOD)
Honors
Campaign participation credit
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase II
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army)
- Streamer Embroidered VIETNAM 1966.