The 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) is the command and control headquarters for all U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) companies and battalions located in the continental United States (CONUS), to include the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

. Subordinate units maintain EOD Response Teams which evaluate, render safe, and remove conventional, chemical/biological, or nuclear ordnance, or improvised explosive device

Improvised explosive device

An improvised explosive device , also known as a roadside bomb, is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action...

s that 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.

Mission

On order, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) deploys and conducts operations ISO Combatant Commanders or other government agencies to counter CBRNE and WMD

WMD

WMD may refer to:* Weapon of mass destruction, a term used to describe munitions with the capacity to kill large numbers of human beings indiscriminately* Weighted mean difference, a measure in statistical meta-analysis...

 threats.

Subordinate units

• 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD), Fort Campbell
  Fort Campbell
  Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astraddle the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee...
  
  
  • 63rd Ordnance Battalion (EOD), Fort Drum
    Fort Drum
    Fort Drum is a United States Army base in New York near the Canadian border.Fort Drum may also refer to:*Fort Drum, Florida, a nearly-uninhabited town in the United States*Fort Drum , Philippines...
    
    
  • 184th Ordnance Battalion (EOD)
    184th Ordnance Battalion (EOD)
    The 184th Ordnance Battalion accomplish the explosive ordnance disposal support activity. The EOD battalion operates under FORSCOM command and control with several companies strategically located within each control area...
    
    , Fort Campbell
  • 192nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD), Fort Bragg
    • 28th Ordnance Company (EOD)(ABN), Fort Bragg

Lineage

1. Constituted 20 December 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Group
2. Activated 27 December 1943 at Camp Hood, Texas
3. Reorganized and redesigned 27 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Ordnance Service Group
4. Reorganized and redesigned 20 December 1946 as the 52d Ordnance Composite Group
5. Inactivated 30 June 1948 in Austria
6. Redesignated 8 January 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Ordnance Group, and allotted to the Regular Army
7. Activated 28 January 1952 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
8. Inactivated 16 May 1955 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
9. Activated 2 December 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
10. Inactivated 20 October 1967 in Vietnam
11. Redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52D Ordnance Group (EOD), and activated at Fort Gillem, Georgia
12. Reassigned in early 2009 to Fort Campbell, KY with 184 OD BN (EOD)

Campaign participation credit

• World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
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Normandy

Normandy

Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...

Northern France

Rhineland

Rhineland

Historically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....

Ardennes-Alsace

Central Europe

• Vietnam
  Vietnam
  Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
  
  

Counteroffensive

Counteroffensive, Phase II

Counteroffensive, Phase III

External links

• 52D Ordnance Group (EOD) Home Page – Official Site