11 EOD Regiment is a regiment of the British Army's Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) responsible for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). The unit is manned by Ammunition Technical Officers and Ammunition Technicians. This Regiment takes its place with the Joint Service EOD Operators of the Royal Engineers, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, in responding to suspicious package/bomb calls in the UK mainland outside of London; the Metropolitan Police have their own unit for the London area.
In addition to bomb disposal duties in Mainland UK, 11 EOD Regiment takes it in turns with 33 Engineer Regiment EOD and 101 Engineer Regiment EOD to command Bomb Disposal operations in Iraq (Op Telic) and Afghanistan (Op Herrick). The Regiment provides Bomb Disposal teams to work with all other EOD units at all times. The Regiment reports to 29 EOD & Search Group, part of 8 Force Engineer Brigade.
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The regiment is based at Vauxhall Barracks, Didcot, Oxfordshire; and on 19 November 2010, in a ceremony at Didcot Parkway railway station, a High Speed Train locomotive, no. 43087 operated by First Great Western (FGW), was named 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment Royal Logistic Corps. The ceremony was attended by Lt Col Gareth Bex (Commanding Officer); soldiers of the Regiment; Mark Hopwood, of FGW; Keith Mitchell, leader of the county council; and the MP for Wantage, Ed Vaizey.[1][2]