Munitions storage depots

MacFee indicated that he worked out of an office in Luray and buried Civil War munitions as well. The District of Columbia was also able to confirm that there were five CCC camps in Luray, including Camp Roosevelt and Camps NP-1, NP-2, NP-10, and NP-12. These camps were near a large storage depot and in an area rich with Civil War remnants, which may have provided MacFee and his unit with experience in burying munitions. The caller also indicated that munitions burials occurred at Aberdeen, Maryland, and that the Old Navy Radio Station in Arlington, Virginia, had two munitions dumps on it. 

The unitary5 chemical agents in U.S. stockpiles are nerve agents (GB and VX)6 and three related forms of blister (mustard) agent (H, HD, and HT). The original stockpile contained 31,496 tons of unitary agents, which were stored in a variety of munitions and containers under ambient conditions, where they exist primarily as liquids. Because the stockpile at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific has been completely destroyed by incineration and the stockpile at Deseret Chemical Depot, in Utah, has been partially incinerated, as of October 3, 2001, the amount in storage was approximately 24,098 tons. 

The Army, through the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization (PMCD), is responsible for destroying the U.S. stockpile of chemical munitions at nine storage sites. The portion of the stockpile at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in... 

Munitions are brought by truck in sealed containers from the storage area in Deseret Chemical Depot into... 

Most of the chemical agent and munitions stockpile is stored at eight Army depots in the continental United States at Anniston, Alabama Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pueblo, Colorado Newport, Indiana Lexington, Kentucky Aberdeen, Maryland Umatilla, Oregon and Tooele, Utah. A portion of the stockpile is stored at two overseas locations (Germany, and Johnston Island in the Pacific). Figure 2.1 shows the storage locations in the continental United States. 

Rocket Motor and Fuel Disposal With the reduction of military forces in the United States and worldwide, rocket motors are being removed from service and reduced in number. The motors are being shipped to munitions depots for storage and for disposal. The disposal method presently used is open bum/open detonation, which can result in explosions that scatter motor parts and contaminate the environment with unbumed propellant. An effective and environmentally sound alternative to open bum/open detonation is required. 

Early ARS prototypes were field tested in two exercises at the U.S. Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) in 1991 and 1992.[1] The ARS system and other NDE systems were tested on a variety of CW munitions and bulk storage containers. ARS proved to be most usefrd on munitions rather than bulk containers, since it is easier to excite the... 

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