Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines conducts bomb training with the Philippine National Police [Image 1 of 4]

ZAMBOANGA, PHILIPPINES

12.22.2009

Photo by Lt.j.g. Theresa Carpenter 

U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Smith, explosive ordnance disposal technician, assigned to Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, examines some of the chemical compounds in improvised explosive devices. Smith and two other EOD Task Unit members taught a two-day course to members of the Philippine National Police Regional Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Detection Unit 9 at their headquarters in Zamboanga del Norte. The class focused on ways to identify the various chemicals in homemade bombs, should the teams have to search a home of a suspected bomb maker.

• Date Taken: 12.22.2009
• Date Posted: 12.27.2009 22:16
• Photo ID: 235209
• VIRIN: 091222-N-1008D-051
• Resolution: 3216x2136
• Size: 530.14 KB
• Location: ZAMBOANGA, PH