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Now approved is a new warfare designation called "Explosive Ordinance Disposal Warfare Specialist", or EWS. That designation will replace the current EOD designation that appears after a sailor's name. "We are trying to build a community here," said CNO-designated Command Master Chief (EWS/SW) Anthony Santino, the top enlisted sailor in Naval Expeditionary Combat Command. The new EWS designator formalizes the EOD warfare qualification program that has been in place since 1995 but until now had not been codified in an official CNO-approved instruction.
"Since our rating is now EOD, it seemed a bit redundant to also have it after our names, too," Santino said. No additional pin is forthcoming, however. The existing EOD "crab" pin will continue to be used. The EOD Basic Badge is now a qualification/Specialty badge. They do not earn a warfare specialty until Senior Tech. So Seaman Joe would come out of the pipeline as Seaman Joe (DV, PJ), and in a few years would be Petty Officer Joe (EWS).
I understand that it denotes completing your warfare pipeline, but if you don't complete it are you going to stay EOD anyway? Is it just me, or did everything seem to become a warfare qual recently. You only used to see SS, SW, AW, SEAL or EOD until recently and hardly anybody had more than two. Now some guys have like six things after their name. I agree with listing warfare quails, but why the entire resume?
What you qualify for is not always the same as what you can wear. It depends on how they group the qualifications and how many you have. You can wear a max of two, but they must be from different warfare areas. If they group the Expeditionary Warfare Device and EWS together, than you could only wear one.
Example: A Naval Flight Officer changes designators and qualifies as a Naval Aviator. He or she is qualified for both, but can only wear one since they are from the same warfare area. Example: A Surface Warfare Officer changes designators and qualifies as a Naval Aviator. He or She can wear both because they are different warfare areas. The list of groupings can be found in the Uniform Regulations.
What about someone assigned to EOD Support Side? Obviously (EWS) is not an option, but I would think with EOD now falling under NECC that (EXW) would be an option for someone filling those type billets. At least, I hope it will be an option for me. Here's what's on the net.
The Expeditionary Warfare device requires, "Completion of general expeditionary and unit-specific Personnel Qualification Standard (PQS), the general PQS to include weapon qualifications and maintenance, marksmanship, land navigation, field communications and expertise in setting up expeditionary camps." Most of that looks like it comes from TEU in the EOD community.
So, some good people to ask would be those at TEU. I know that each one of those requirements was a week long class, or longer. Rifle and pistol was split up over a few weeks. But the requirement also says, "Sailors assigned to expeditionary units will have one year to complete the Enlisted Expeditionary Warfare qualification, and it will be mandatory for Sailors E-5 and above."
It will probably take a while to shake out all the kinks in the new NECC. If you've already reported aboard, run up the ladder and ask. I am told that some support people will deploy with DETs and some will not. That might be a determination.
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What knife sharpener?
What knife sharpener for a kabar USMC knife? It can be a stone or any system that will work well. Please name a place i can buy it online!
In general any normal knife sharpener will work for Kabar. It's a pretty common steel, not too hard too.
Depends more on your budget and skill I guess.
Sharpening systems are devices that hold the consistent angle for you and you either move the stone or the knife.
The best system I have had and used so far was Edge Pro Apex. It's a little pricey, but very easy to use, super fast and very versatile.
Spyderco sharpmaker is also a system, but unlike edge pro, you have to hold the correct angle yourself, which pretty much boils down to holding your knife straight. As simple as it sounds, it becomes a problem for many people.
Another problem with Spyderco sharpmaker is that the 2 sets of sharpening stones that come with it are too fine for any serious sharpening. As GrizzlyMint said, for dull knives it's not really good, so to make that system work you will need extra Diamond rods for it, which cost pretty much the same as the whole system.
Mini reviews of both here - http://www.zknives.com/knives/sharpening/systems.shtml
If you want to try freehand sharpening, it's more complicated in the beginning, but later you'll probably drop using any systems.
For starters by the way, the easiest is to use sandpaper on the mousepad. This is a variation of the freehand sharpening, but it's much more forgiving compared to stones and very cheap at that.
Here's the detailed explanation and a few hints on how to keep consistent angle - http://www.zknives.com/knives/articles/sandpapermousepad.shtml
I've sharpener pretty much all types of knives using that method, including ceramics.
http://www.zknives.com/knives/sharpening/index.shtml
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