Pyro (AE 24) - Naval Cruise Book

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...ns f-7 - EXP 0 IVE ORDNANCE DI P0 AL Explosive Ordnance Disposal QEODJ Mobile Unit One Det 23 embarked USS PYRO in Hawaii at NAVMAG Lualualei for the deployment. The EOD team, lead by LT Lance Jasitt, served as PYRO's emergency ord- nance disposal experts. Although their expertise, fortu- nately, was not required for ordnance disposal aboard the ship, on one occasion EOD was called upon to explosively dispose of a 500-pound World War ll Japa- nese bomb unearthed at a construction site at Yokota Air Force Base. The EOD team also sponsored physical fitness training for the crew. NVQ X N S3215 EOD team poses in front of USS New Jersey's 16-inch guns during a tour of the historic battleship. CL to RJ MM1 Schell, MMi Scott, and ET2 Olson helped to conduct Chemical, Biological, and Radiolo- gical Defense training for the crew while assigned to USS PYRO.

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MM3 Sotero Angeles FN Steve Bruneau SN Jeffrey Martin FN Dale Daigneau SN Greg Burnett EMFN Dante Julurbal SN Paul Graubner SA Hugh McFadden i l Palmer Haldeman serves as Rig Captain on a rainy day at sea. MMFN Rodney Warner MMFN Larry Hjelmstad SA Ray ST Marie SA Bob Brady SR William Henriquez SA Howard Bragg MM3 Sam Williams SF! Eric Aloia , f-- -.-e-urquna...na-- S.....a-.,

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