Matthew McElroy

Military Service:

• Rank: Sergeant

  Branch/Position: Marine Corps

  Period: July 2024 - present

  Occupation: 2336 - Explosive Ordnance Disposal

  Security Clearance: Top Secret Clearance

  Duties Description:
  EOD technicians perform various duties that include locating, accessing, identifying, rendering safe, neutralizing, and disposing of hazards from foreign and domestic, conventional, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives (CBRNE) unexploded explosive ordnance (UXO), improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and weapons of mass destruction (WMD that present a threat to operations, installations, personnel, or materiels

  Training courses:

  • ATF: HME
  • ATF: Explosive Evidence Exploitation

• Rank: Sergeant

  Branch/Position: Marine Corps

  Period: August 2021 - July 2024

  Occupation: 1371 - 1371 - Marine Corps Combat Engineer

  Duties Description:
  Combat engineers construct, alter, repair, and maintain buildings and structures; lift and move heavy objects and equipment by setting up, bracing, and utilizing rigging devices and equipment; and perform various duties incidental to the use of demolitions in construction projects and destruction of objects; Personnel assigned this MOS are taught carpentry and other construction skills as well as demolitions, specialized demolitions for urban breaching and land mine.

  Training courses:

  • Naval Achievement Medal
  • Sapper Leaders