. Forward deployed to Panjwa’i District in support of the 1st Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, he swiftly integrated his team and effectively ensured freedom of maneuver and cleared lines of communication in the volatile and arduous Panjwa’i peninsula area of operations. While operating in a known Taliban stronghold, Staff Sergeant Bozeman conducted 96 dismounted missions in arduous terrain, under constant threat of insurgent attack he prosecuted and safely eliminating 64 IEDs through his efforts ensuring Coalition and Afghani people were free from this insidious method of attack. Furthermore, the intelligence and biometric data gleaned from these devices were critical in the identification and categorization of 6 enemy bomb facilitators. Staff Sergeant Bozeman played a pivotal role in OPERATION SECOND STRIKE II, designed to clear, hold, and deny the highly volatile region around Adamzai Village to the enemy. In fact, after inserting by helicopter his team, singly and on foot, supported 2 battalions of Task Force 1-10 Battle Group across a 4 square kilometer battle space safely engaging and eliminating 12 IEDs and destroying 400 small arms weapons and IED making munitions ensuring the safety of 250 Coalition troops and the overall success of the operation.

Train Coalition Forces in emerging Enemy Tactics Techniques and Procedures. Conduct threat assesment for battle space commanders. Provide courses in small unit tactics in a high-threat environment as well as deploy in support of an Airborne Contingency Response Group in the capacity of a EOD Team Leader/Force Protection Advisor.

Safe implementation and use of coalition explosives as well as the disarming and destruction of enemy Improvised Explosive Devices. To ensure the safety of coalition forces while protecting local national and indigenous forces, infrastructure, and team reputation.

Senior Airman Bozeman completed over 100 combat missions, 70 IEDs, numerous weapons caches, post blast analysis, and was involved in multiple complex attacks. While attached to JIEDDO employed tactics to ensure the take down of key bomb makers within Baqubah. Assisted in tactical site exploitation after the assassination of Al-Zarqawi outside Khalis, Iraq and was later instrumental in redering safe multiple Improvised Explosive Devices, supressing enemy small arms fire and establishing a helicopter landing zone to ensure the medical evacuation of a critically wounded comrade.