What is the Undefeated 2-Day Ride?
The Undefeated 2-Day Ride presented by Paladar Navy Cycling is a fundraising experience for the Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation (WEODWF). This event provides an opportunity to enjoy one of the most spectacular biking tracks in America, while supporting the Wounded EOD Warriors and their families.

This cycling event is a fully supported 2-day bike ride, rolling from Santa Monica down the coast to Liberty Station in San Diego. With a route just under 200 miles, it is sure to be a fast and fun weekend.

Riders Category are required to raise $1000 (and encouraged to raise even more!) as they prepare for the Undefeated 2-Day Ride. This includes transportation from San Diego to Santa Monica, Friday and Saturday lodging, dinner, full ride support, an Undefeated T-Shirt, Jersey, and Bibs. For those riders at the top end of the donation scale, they will receive awards and prizes.

Virtual Rider Category, if they raise a minimum of $300 they will receive Undefeated T-Shirt, Jersey, and Bibs. This allow for those rider that would like to participate on their own. Just ride the same miles (160 miles) on your bike or gym bike.
   
  

 

What is the Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation?
The Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation (WEODWF) is a 501(c), 3 non-profit organization that provides assistance to our Wounded EOD Warriors and their families in the form of financial relief. The resources provided by the Foundation to the wounded and their families are above and beyond the budgetary constraints of the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs.

The EOD community has not seen causalities of this magnitude since the profession was founded during WWII. As we continue to provide assistance to our Wounded EOD Warriors and their families, it is evident that every injury sustained creates lifelong needs with life altering consequences for the warrior and the family. To meet these future needs for so many wounded our foundation must build a long term sustainable endowment able to provide assistance for whatever may be needed. Fundraisers such as the 2-Day bike ride help us to reach that goal, and we need your help....

What is Navy Cycling?
Mission Statement:  Our mission is to develop a competitive atmosphere for athletes, while providing a positive and visible image to the public for Navy Special Operations, the Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation, and our sponsors.

The Club:  The core of the team is made up of active and retired military members - all from two Special Operations groups: Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Naval Special Warfare (NSW or SEAL). The remaining members of the team are made up of old, broken former athletes that still want to belong to something.

With its birth more than 10-years ago as a Masters Road and Track racing team, which competed throughout California and Arizona, it has transitioned today into a social and civic minded club, with a little racing to justify the cool outfits. With over 70 members, primarily located in San Diego and Orange County, California, our membership really spans the country, with small numbers in Washington and Oregon, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Florida. One of the benefits of the team's Navy association is that we tend to travel from state to state - so like a good virus, we spread out.

The Events:  We have two major events that we sponsor. The first is the annual Train of Pain bike trip. We will roll the week before Memorial Day with 25-riders and 3-support drivers for a roughly 500-mile trek through some of California's most picturesque venues. In general, we will do two days out and back from the downtown area.

We launched an annual fundraising and awareness ride for the Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation (WEODWF). We will launch a 2-day trip from Santa Monica, heading south to Liberty Station in San Diego. Leveraging off our past years of organizing experience, our hope is to provide a safe, fun, and challenging event for both active duty and civilian riders. Riders will be challenged to roughly a hundred miles a day while raising money for an outstanding foundation that provides much needed financial support to our returning heroes and their families. The WEODW Undefeated 2-Day Bike Ride will end with the Festival in the Park, a gathering of military and community families and friends who’ll enjoy live music, bbq, a silent auction, hands-on experience with EOD tools and equipment, and a chance to meet some of our brave wounded warriors.

What is EOD?
EOD stands for Explosive Ordnance Disposal, the military's Bomb Squad. EOD is a joint service military occupational skill, which means that EOD Technicians serve within the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force. The program is strictly manned by volunteer candidates. Personnel that choose this field are specially trained at the EOD School located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

On average, there are over 7,000 brave men and women serving as EOD Technicians within the four services. The Technicians are responsible for disarming, rendering safe and disposing of a variety or unexploded military ordnance and terrorist devices, normally called Improvised Explosive Devices or IEDs. IEDs on today's battlefields are responsible for the majority of fatalities and severe injuries to our troops.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are highly trained, skilled technicians and shooters who are experts in explosives, diving, and parachuting. EOD technicians share the task of rendering safe and disposing of explosive material. Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians protect and save lives by analyzing and handling foreign, domestic, and homemade explosives. They routinely work with the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. State Department, helping to protect the President, Vice President, foreign officials and dignitaries. They support the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs Office, and the FBI as well as state and local police bomb squads. EOD technicians also assist in security at large international events, such as the Olympics or world summits.

Meaning of the EOD Insignia
THE WREATH is symbolic of the achievements and laurels gained by minimizing accident potentials, through the ingenuity and devotion to duty of its members. It is in memory of the EOD personnel who have given their lives while performing EOD duties.

THE BOMB was copied from the design of the World War II Bomb Disposal Badge; the bomb represents the historic and major objective of the EOD attack, the unexploded bomb. The three fins represent the major areas of nuclear, conventional, and chemical/biological warfare.

THE LIGHTNING BOLTS symbolize the potential destructive power of the bomb and the courage and professionalism of EOD personnel in their endeavors to reduce hazards as well as to render explosive ordnance harmless.

THE SHIELD represents the EOD mission which is to protect personnel and property in the immediate area from an inadvertent detonation of hazardous ordnance.

History of EOD
Bomb disposal in the United States dates back to April of 1941. The United States was not yet at war, but we were actively preparing for that eventuality. Embassy personnel and military observers were reporting on the actions of warring nations and as these reports were evaluated by the War Department, Intelligence Sections, recommendations were made concerning actions that should be taken by the United States. One area stood out.

Delayed-explosion bombs were creating havoc in Europe, taking a heavy toll on lives and industry. It was expected that if the United States entered the war, we would experience bombing of our cities and industries. As a result, the need for a bomb disposal program in this country received immediate attention.

In the beginning, it was thought that bomb disposal would be under the Office of Civilian Defense. In April 1941, the School of Civilian Defense was organized at the Chemical Warfare School, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, and part of the training was to be bomb disposal.

The Commandant of the Chemical Warfare School requested assistance from the War Department to set up the Bomb Disposal School. The request was approved and forwarded to General Julian S. Hatcher, who was the Commanding General of the Ordnance Training Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. General Hatcher selected Major Thomas J. Kane to provide assistance.

It was decided that both military and civilian bomb disposal personnel would be trained by the Army. All responsibility for bomb disposal was placed under the U.S. Army Ordnance Department. The Office of Civilian Defense would be responsible for bomb reconnaissance and the disposal of incendiaries in the United States. The location of the Bomb Disposal School was changed from Edgewood Arsenal to the Ordnance Training Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Newly promoted Colonel Kane was selected to be the school's commandant.

In the interim the Navy, under a directive from the Chief of Naval Operations, instituted a Mine Disposal School in May of 1941. The school was located in Washington, D.C. and was tasked with the training of Navy personnel in the disposal of U.S. and foreign mines and other underwater ordnance. In December of 1941, the Chief of Naval Personnel issued another directive for the formation of the Navy Bomb Disposal School.

In 1947, the Navy was assigned Joint Service responsibility for basic EOD training and in 1971, the Navy was designated as the Single Service Manager for all common EOD training. This training continues to be provided by the Naval School, Explosive Ordnance Disposal School located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.