What’s that loud boom? U.S. Air Force undergoes explosive training in Miami-Dade

If you hear a loud boom Tuesday morning in Homestead, don’t be alarmed.

The Homestead Air Reserve Base says its 482d Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight will be conducting “explosive training operations” between 8:45 a.m. and noon. It expects to have a maximum of four detonations during that period.

The U.S. Air Force describes Explosive Ordnance Disposal specialists as the Air Force’s bomb squad, who are “trained to detect, disarm and dispose of explosive threats in the most extreme environments.”

As for Tuesday’s training, “There is no cause for alarm,” the Homestead Air Reserve Base posted on Facebook and Twitter.

However, it might mess up your plans to sleep in.

This story was originally published March 22, 2022 at 9:00 AM.

Michelle Marchante

Miami Herald

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Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription