I am currently a college student and am very interested in the military specifically the Navy EOD community. I’ve done lots of research on Navy EOD but haven’t found any answers to these specific questions. Any help is very much appreciated.
1. How much leadership is there for Enlisted (E4)? Is the average promotion time in EOD any different than the Navy as a whole?
2. On the website <www.eod.navy.mil> , one of the advanced schools you can go to is DLI. How rare is it? Are there any requirements other than a high DLAB score? I understand that sending a Technician to a whole year of language school is very time consuming, but I was just curious since I saw this on a navy website.
3. I know that women are allowed into the EOD community, but are they welcomed?
4. Is it possible to be EOD qualified and be a corpsman? I think that EOD teams have corpsman attached to their team right? But are those corpsman EOD qualified?
5. Officers and enlisted go through the same pipeline (dive, eod, jump, etc.), but what are the differences between Officer and Enlisted? Is it like a SEAL officer who has lots of field time and hands on experiences? I guess what am asking is: I’ve heard that EOD officers typically spend a few years with an EOD team then usually go to a desk job. Do officers really not spend that much time actually disarming bombs?
Although the find function can answer many of the questions (probably the reason no one has replied yet) I will answer them.
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1. How much leadership is there for Enlisted (E4)? Is the average promotion time in EOD any different than the Navy as a whole?
Very little, you will be one of the lowest ranking people on the platoon.Promotion, just like the rest of the Navy, changes with each cycle.
2. On the website <www.eod.navy.mil> , one of the advanced schools you can go to is DLI. How rare is it? Are there any requirements other than a high DLAB score? I understand that sending a Technician to a whole year of language school is very time consuming, but I was just curious since I saw this on a navy website. Yes, I have known many to go to DLI. It is not guaranteed and is normally at the more senior ranks.
3. I know that women are allowed into the EOD community, but are they welcomed? Women are welcomed as long as they do not require special treatment based on their gender and perform honorably.
4. Is it possible to be EOD qualified and be a corpsman? I think that EOD teams have corpsman attached to their team right? But are those corpsman EOD qualified? No. There are no EOD qualified corpsman.
5. Officers and enlisted go through the same pipeline (dive, eod, jump, etc.), but what are the differences between Officer and Enlisted? Is it like a SEAL officer who has lots of field time and hands on experiences? I guess what am asking is: I’ve heard that EOD officers typically spend a few years with an EOD team then usually go to a desk job. Do officers really not spend that much time actually disarming bombs?
Typically, EOD and SEAL officer paths are similar. Two to three tours in the field as a platoon or company commander. After these tours, higher rank requires more administrative and planning tasks. One must remember that the job of an officer is to lead and perform command and control functions. The enlisted sailors are the people in the trenches getting the job done. It is this way in all branches and communities.
neod said it all. As far as the DLI goes, we have sent E5 and up. It would not be until after your first sea tour,(5 yrs). I have a good friend that has been twice, onece for Serbo Croat and once for Arabic.
EODCS, When you've seen techs go to DLI, was that usually on their way to another MU? I knew of some instructors going en route to..say MU8 for example. I'd very much appreciate a chance to go there. I think it'd be a great experience. When I was in school, they were sending some officers there straight out of school. Rare, but it happened. I hope all is well. Congrats, again.
Gator, it's usually enroute to another unit, however I've seen some do a split tour and then return to the parent unit. The officer thing I'm not fond of at all, but they have to stash them somewhere if the unit is not in town.
Thanks for the well wishes. How's the deployment going?
Senior, The deployment's rolling along. It's MCM in Bahrain, so...it is what it is. I've been to a couple of other countries to do training with them. Good stuff. We're a couple of months into it. Thanks for the DLI info. Good to know. Did you get a new platoon yet? Good to hear from you. Take care.
