Muslim EOD Soldier Blows Up Stereotypes

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Khaled Abou Rashad may have immigrated to the United States from Syria when he was only a boy, but these days he does something that few of his countrymen do: Build and detonate large quantities of high explosives.

Rashad, a captain in the 192d Ordnance Battalion (EOD), is the Army's first Muslim-American bomb disposal expert officer, …