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Hazardous Devices School Photo Gallery

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. Under the watchful eye of HDS trainers, trainees begin a simulated field operation staged in a "neighborhood" setting with "real life" situations awaiting them (all held on the base). The HD1 robot will be used to asses the situation before they enter the home.

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Video clips of a bomb being detonated on a city bus at HDS, the Hazardous Devices School, Huntsvill, Alabama.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. Under the watchful eye of HDS trainers, trainees begin a simulated field operation staged in a "neighborhood" setting with "real life" situations awaiting them (all held on the base). The HD1 robot will be used to asses the situation before they enter the home.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. HDS Instructors work with trainees on a live fire range with det. cord and explosives.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. HDS Instructors work with trainees on a live fire range with det. cord and explosives.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. HDS Instructors work with trainees on a live fire range with det. cord and explosives.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. HDS Instructor in the classroom with trainees.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. The simulated "Shoe Bomb."

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. Trainee Sam Hsu, from the Montgomery County Fire Marshals, in Maryland, suited up in a training operation.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. Airplane simulator.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. Suicide bomber house/simulator.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. HDS Supervisor Floyd "Silver Fox" Pirtle sits with the training simulation version of the latest Times Square "Car Bomb" attempt.

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The Hazardous Device School (HDS), at the Redstone Arsenal military base in Huntsville, Alabama. The Robotics unit, which houses the latest and greatest in robotic bomb disposal technology, this unit is currently one of the smallest called the "Recon Scout" which is designed to be thrown through windows.