NAS Jax Security and Fire Department personnel – supported by the NS Mayport Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team – successfully conducted an anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) evolution Feb. 24 as installation first-responders participated in the nationwide Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield 2011 exercise.
President Benigno Aquino III will culminate on Saturday the month-long detonation of thousands of leftover World War II explosives donated by United States that had become obsolete through the years.
Aquino, the military’s commander-in-chief, will remotely detonate the last two pallets of 287-pound Mk-6 and two pallets of 190-pound Mk-9 charges using a radio firing device, the Philippine Navy said Thursday.
"Greater love hath no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends," John 15:13
This quotation is inscribed on a plaque that rests on a tri-faced structure within the air station's Combined Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit building.
Besides the plaque, the wall is covered in portraits of Marines, 35 in all. The first portrait is of Gunnery Sgt. Michael Clark, the last of Gunnery Sgt. Justin Schmalstieg.
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