7-15. Explosive ordnance disposal supports, enhances, and enables unit operations, planning, and training across direct and indirect lines of effort. Explosive ordnance disposal competencies specifically provide organic force protection capability, elevate and deepen the level of training assistance to indigenous forces, and reduce risks to missions and to forces during direct action missions, as well as other specialized tasks. Explosive ordnance disposal units provide both general support to Army special operations forces commanders, based on requested theater allocations, as well as direct support with specialized and designated explosive ordnance disposal units to specified units. The increasing proliferation and technological complexity of improvised weapons and other chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards drives this critical requirement of continued and embedded explosive ordnance disposal support to all Army special operations units in order to maintain required core mission capabilities.