Staff Sgt. Paul I. Mead, right, shows students how to control an MK2 Talon by using an operator control unit during an explosive ordnance disposal demonstration Feb. 20 outside the Camp Foster Community Center, Okinawa, Japan. The presentation was in the middle of the Department of Defense Education Activity Okinawa’s first robotics competition between elementary schools, middle schools and high schools located on Okinawa. Mead is a Heavener, Okla., native and an EOD technician with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific-Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Japan. DoD


Staff Sgt. Paul I. Mead, right, shows students how to control an MK2 Talon by using an operator control unit during an explosive ordnance disposal demonstration Feb. 20 outside the Camp Foster Community Center, Okinawa, Japan. The presentation was in the middle of the Department of Defense Education Activity Okinawa’s first robotics competition between elementary schools, middle schools and high schools located on Okinawa. Mead is a Heavener, Okla., native and an EOD technician with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific-Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Japan. DoDEA Okinawa schools compete at robotics competition 141206-M-PU373-024


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