Cotabato City, Philippines A local 35-year old fisherman found a UXO item along the shoreline of the Rio Grande de Mindanao as he was docking his boat along the river bank during low tide. The UXO was half buried in the sand and sediment. Concerned that someone may be harmed by the UXO, the man took it upon himself to uncover the UXO and personally hand delivery it to the police station.

The police called the 6th Infantry Division Bomb Disposal Unit in for technical support in dealing with the UXO. Bomb disposal technicians identified the UXO as a live WWII era munition (specific type not reported). The technicians safely detonated the UXO to dispose of the explosive safety hazard in a controlled detonation operation.

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Kandahar, Afghanistan Air Force EOD Technical Sergeant Adam K. Ginett, 29, of Knightdale, North Carolina died, of wounds suffered from an IED explosion. Ginnett was assigned to the 31st Civil Engineer Squadron based in Aviano Air Base, Italy. Ginett joined the Air Force at the age of 18 and served three tours in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan. He earned the Bronze Star during his first tour in Afghanistan.

Garden City, Idaho a portion of the Boise Greenbelt, a 16-mile walking and cycling path that follows the Boise River, was closed after a resident discovered a buried munition in the area. The resident, a treasure hunter enthusiast, was scanning an area a few yards away from 47th street with a metal detector when he discovered an anomaly. After digging on the anomaly, the treasure hunter was surprised to find that it was an old artillery shell. The man called the police to report the unusual find.

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Kodiak, Alaska for nearly 20 years an old WWII aerial bomb hung outside of Big Jim's Little Bar as the owner of the bar assumed that it was loaded with inert concrete. Bar patrons referred to the wall decoration as "Da Bomb" as someone over the years painted those words alongside body of the bomb. When the bar changed owners, a local resident ended up with the bomb. The resident decided that we would donate the munition (shown in the image below) to the Kodiak Military History Museum so he called the museum to pick up the bomb.

The museum curator traveled to the man's house to inspect the bomb. The curator noticed that the bomb cavity contained a fill material that did not exactly resemble concrete. Doing some research, the curator identified the bomb as a WWII era AN Mk I Mod 3 1,263 pound aerial bomb. Concerned that the filler was potentially energetic material, the curator called the EOD unit based out of Fort Richardson for further analysis.

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Afghanistan Captain Daniel Read from 11 EOD Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps died in the Musa Qaleh area of northern Helmand province from an IED. The 31-year old from St Columb, Newquay only recently returned to duty after recovering from injuries sustained in an IED blast last October.

Washington, D.C. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) published their annual updated list of explosive materials in the Federal Register. The list includes explosives, blasting agents, and detonators, that are subject to federal importation, manufacture, distribution, receipt, and storage regulations.

The updated list for 2010 includes 237 materials. One noticeable change from lists published in recent years is the absence of ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP). APCP has been removed from the list as a result of a court decision in March 2009 and is no longer regulated under federal explosive laws.

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Studland, United Kingdom A fishing trawler pulled up a six foot long pipe like object with fins on one end in one of their nets. Concerned that the item may be a UXO, the Captain lowered the item back into the water and placed a buoy to mark the spot. He then immediately contacted the Coastguard who responded with technical support from a bomb disposal team based from Portsmouth. EOD searched the area around the buoy with an underwater magnetomer from their boat but were unable to reacquire the item. EOD stopped short of sending a dive team into the waters to conduct a manual search for the suspect UXO. The area and waters around Studland are known to contain munitions from when the area was used for gunnery practice during WWII.