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Suggest a Feature →Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist
$195K to train an EOD specialist who walks toward what everyone else runs from. During the height of OIF/OEF, EOD teams were the single most decorated community in the military — and the most heavily targeted by enemy forces.
Each TALON robot ($230K) that disarms a device protects a soldier whose training cost $195K. The robot is cheaper than the soldier — and intentionally so.
Army EOD trains at the same Naval School EOD as Navy and Marine EOD — the only joint-service training pipeline with ~30% attrition. The attrition-adjusted cost per graduate exceeds $195,000. Every decision they make with a bomb has no second chance.
⚠ ~30% pipeline attrition. Cost represents investment per successful graduate.
- ·TALON Robot ($230K)
- ·F6A EOD Suit ($85K)
- ·Total EOD Kit
- ·Render Safe Tools
- ·Electronic Countermeasures
- ·M4A1 Carbine
Cost estimates derived from DoD Comptroller per-soldier analysis, RAND Corporation military personnel studies, CBO military compensation reports, service-specific training cost testimony, and published equipment unit costs. Error margin ±15%. Individual costs vary by duty station, assignment, and deployment tempo. This is Phase 3 of the Honest MOS DoD Budget Intelligence Roadmap.