Quang Tri Province, Vietnam - EOD Team leader Le Xuan Tung of Project RENEW assembles his team in the field before they canvas a small village for any possible unexploded ordnance.

Quang Tri Province, Vietnam – A member of the Battle Area Clearance Team of Project RENEW uses a sensitive metal detector to investigate a suspected explosive from the war with the U.S. The item turned out to be only a piece of metal shrapnel. The team found dozens of such fragments, along with intact mortar shells, 40mm rifle grenades, and other munitions in the plantation they were clearing during an eight hour work day in which the temperature rose to 42 degrees Celsius (108 degrees Fahrenheit).

Near Hue, Vietnam – A Norwegian People's Aid search team is ferried to an island in the middle of a lake, where they will conduct a technical survey on the steep slopes of the island's hill. Technical surveys involve teams of deminers scanning selected 25-meter boxes of land with metal detectors. Discovery of any mine or ERW is a data point for determining where and how much of the surrounding squares need to be searched more thoroughly; the mine or ordnance itself is either destroyed in place or carefully transported to a controlled demolition site for destruction.

05 Near Hue, Vietnam – Tran Hong Phuong, an EOD team leader for Norwegian People's Aid, measures the length of a large artillery shell found in a barren area.

Near Hue, Vietnam - Members of a Norwegian People's Aid EOD team carry away a large artillery shell located in a remote area outside of Hue in the middle of the country. It will be detonated later at a site used for safe disposal of ordnance.

Near Hue, Vietnam - Members of a Norwegian People's Aid EOD team go over the protocol for the day’s task: using TNT charges to detonate and render harmless several shells, bombs and cluster munitions found by the survey teams in the areas surrounding Hue. Preparing red warning flags is Bui Trong Hong, a former EOD specialist with the North Vietnamese Army who retired as a Colonel; he is now a technical advisor to Project RENEW and to NPA-Vietnam.

Near Hue, Vietnam – EOD Team Leader Tran Hong Phuong plants the ordnance to be destroyed, along with the TNT charges that will be tamped with the pink sandbags. Col. Hong (R) watches Phuong and offers advice on proper placement of the explosives and the amount to be used.

Near Hue, Vietnam - Team leader Tran Hong Phuong goes out to the detonation site to verify that the UXOs were completely destroyed.

Near Hue, Vietnam - After the NPA EOD team successfully destroy a number of UXOs collected recently in the area surrounding Hue, the members repair to a local outdoor restaurant for a can of Red Bull, where Col. Hong plays a spirited game of checkers.

Attapeu Province, Lao PDR - Laotians who live near the village of Mixai attend a community meeting to hear a presentation about the dangers of cluster munitions and other UXOs. NPA relies on tips from local residents to locate mines and UXOs and plan their search efforts.

Ban Lung, Cambodia - Early in the morning, the two all-female EOD andf survey teams deployed to Ratanakiri Province line up outside the NPA compound to be briefed on the day's work.

Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia - An NPA team conducts a technical survey, seeking for any signs of cluster munitions on a plantation near the town of Ban Lung in Northeast part of the country. Cambodia is highly contaminated due to the U.S. bombing campaign during the period 1969-1973, plus the actual fighting between U.S. troops and the North Vietnamese in 1970, fighting between the pro-U.S. government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge during the period 1970-1975, and by the invasion by the Vietnamese army which lasted from 1978 to 1989. It is estimated that between 1979 and 2013, Cambodia suffered more than 64,000 casualties due to land mines and ERWs.

Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia – The leader of an NPA technical survey team uses her tablet computer to record a cluster munition bomblet her team has found, with the precise location derived from her GPS tracker. NPA uses a sophisticated mapping system based on global positioning satellite tracking and predictive software to track located mines and ERWs and decide what areas are potentially contaminated and need to be searched more intensively.

Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia - Sem Leakhena, a team leader for one of the EOD teams, uses friction tape to shape the TNT charge that her team will use to destroy a small cluster bomblet found outside a village in Ratanakiri Province. Leakhena was 25 at the time this was taken in May 2014; she had been with NPA for 1 year and 3 months. Other women admire us, she says, when they see us in uniform and directing demolitions. She says she would like to stay with NPA forever.

Ban Lung, Cambodia – International Technical Advisor Gary Breen discusses some training issues with the two team leaders Dul Sovann and Sem Leakhena. Breen, who spent six years as an EOD specialist with the Australian Army, works to give the team leaders authority to make decisions while insuring that correct safety standards are maintained.

Near Brcko, Bosnia - A mine detection dog and his handler demonstrate their technique of searching for land mines left over from the Balkans war of the 1990s in a village near the city of Brcko in Northern Bosnia. The 25 meter square had actually been cleared a few hours before. Since 1992, Bosnia has suffered 8,335 casualties from mines and ERWs.

Near Brcko, Bosnia - An NPA deminer pauses in a minefield in Northeatsren Bosnia.

Bosnia - Enes Selimovic, known as Mili, stands at the grave of his son Aldin, an NPA deminer who was killed in an accidental mine explosion while working in a minefield. Mili himself was an NPA deminer for many years but resigned after Aldin's death.

Near Travnik, Bosnia - Braco Pandurevic, a project manager and EOD specialist for NPA Bosnia, looks over a minefield being surveyed on top of a mountain in Potkraj, approximately 2000 meters (6500 feet) up. He is about to test the latest potential tool for surveying hazardous areas – a drone. To his right is an inspector from the Bosnia-Herzegovina Mine Action Center (BH-MAC), the government agency responsible for overseeing and implementing the nation’s demining strategy.

Near Travnik, Bosnia - Pandurevic slowly maneuvers NPA’s new drone so that it will land in the safe corridor in the middle of the hazardous zone on a mountain in Potkraj. The Special Detection Dog and his handler watch.

Near Travnik, Bosnia - After rereading the instructions and testing all the controls, Braco Pandurevic carefully flies NPA’s new drone into the hazardous zone on a mountain in Potkraj. The Special Detection Dog meanwhile takes a break.