Eglin Air Force Base

This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research and, in part, by Eglin Air Force Base. We thank Professor Alan Marchand from the University of North Texas who provided the high-energy-density fuels used in this study. We are indebted to Dr. Kathryn Williams, Dr. David Powell, and Mr. Russell Pierce in the Chemistry Department at the University of Florida, for their help with the spectrographic analyses. 

A model has been developed to describe the vertical transport of low-volatility organic chemicals in soil (Freeman and Schroy 1986). The model was used to make predictions on the transport of 2,3,7,8-TCDD at the Eglin Air Force Base Agent Orange biodegradation test plots (Freeman and Schroy 1986). 

Phasex Corporation, 360 Merrimack Street, Lawrence, MA 01843 Air Force Armaments Inboratoiy, Eglin Air Force Base, FL 32542—5435... 

J. Berberet, The Effect of Nuclear Radiations of Explosive Solids, Air Force Systems Command, Aeronautical Systems Division Technical Report No. ASD-TDR-63-893. Eglin Air Force Base, Flda., 1963. 

J. A. Berberet, The Effects of Nuclear Radiations on Explosive Solids, U.S. Air Force Systems Command Technical Report No. ATL-TDR-64-53, Eglin Air Force Base, F la., 1964. 

Eglin Air Force Base. The goals of the test effort were to evaluate the effect of time and temperature on 2,3,7,8-TCDD rernoval efficiency and to establish the importance of soil type. The samples were selected by the Air Force based on results of site surveys to yield high contamination levels in order to investigate a broad range of treatability. This testing was an extension of earlier testing performed for the EPA on two dioxin-contaminated soil samples from Missouri to support EPA s mobile incinerator trial burn in 1985 (5). 

F. M. Hudson, Air Force Armaments Test Laboratory-Technical Documentation Report 64-12, Eglin Air Force Base, Fa. (1964). 

Several other technologies (e.g., molten-salt destruction) are being used at research and development sites (e.g., Eglin Air Force Base and Strauss Avenue Thermal Treatment Plant) to destroy energetic materials, but these technologies are not an integral part of DOD s plan for the demilitarization of obsolete munitions. 

At Eglin Air Force Base (EAFB), located in northwestern Florida, contamination of a 208-ha section with 2.8 kg of 2,3,7,8-TCDD (equivalent to 13.0mg/ha) occurred between 1962 and 1970 as a result of repeated, massive herbicide applications. The 2,3,7,8-TCDD isomer was present as an impurity in 76,740 kg of... 

Air Force Armament Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base... 

Becker NM, Varta EB (1995) Hydrological transport of DU associated with open air dynamic range testing at Los Alamos natural laboratory. New Mexico and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, LA-UR-95-1213, LANL... 

Air Force Operability Systems Management Office, Eglin Air Force Base/FL Bakhtar Associates, Newport Beach/CA... 

Ross, C. A., Jerome, D. M. and Hughes, M. L. (1994), Hardening and rehabilitation of concrete structures using carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) , Final Report, Wright Laboratory Armament Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base, Horida. 

Ironically, given the baselessness of Communist accusations, the US did make some significant advances in its BW capacities during the Korean War. In Operation Dew (1951—52), 250 pounds of a fluorescent tracer were released from a minesweeper off the southeast coast of the United States to study the behavior of aerosols. Another exercise. Brown Derby, was carried out in November 1953 by the Chemical Corps and US Air Force to assess the ability of the US to produce and transport BW weapons overseas. A simulant was manufactured at Pine Bluff Arsenal, inserted into cluster bombs, then shipped to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The exercise demonstrated the US ability to mount a BW operation from scratch in a matter of days. 

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