Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

Schofield Barracks, Hawaii CWM live-fire range Likely to contain dud-fired CWM (potentially shock sensitive) 1. Detect subsurface geophysical anomalies 2. Hand excavate anomalies in a containment structure 3. Dispose of CWM in EDS (volume unknown)... 

The TDC also has received DDESB approval for its application at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Because the system does not have systemwide approval, DDESB would have to approve its application at Pueblo or Blue Grass. 

Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer standing in front of a flame thrower mounted on a medium tank chassis at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. To the right of General Styer is Col, Jay C. Whitehair, Howard C. Peterson, and Col. George P. Unmacht. 

Upon completion of the Porton Down tests and closure of the site, the TDC system was prepared for shipment to Crescent City, Illinois, for storage. In December 2007 and January 2008, the system was prepared for shipment to Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Several flexible connections were replaced. The flow control valves on the 3-in. and 10-in. pipes between the expansion tank and the air pollution control system were rebuilt. Tests were run using simulated equipment test hardware for 155-mm projectiles and 4.2-in. mortars in preparation for operations at Schofield Barracks. Planning was done for destruction of 155-mm projectiles in Hawaii the TDC had not previously destroyed... 

Several versions of the TDC have been used extensively for the destruction of chemical weapons. A TC-10 system and a TC-60 system were used at Poelkapelle in Belgium to destroy 3,200 recovered chemical munitions. A TC-25 system was tested at Porton Down in the United Kingdom in 2003. A TC-60 was extensively tested at Porton Down from 2004 to 2006. As described in Chapter 3, this same system was permitted and operated at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii to destroy 71 munitions containing phosgene and chloropicrin. CH2M HILL claims that the Army owns this TC-60 system, and it might be made available for Requirement BG-2.Of special interest is the upgrading of the system at Porton Down between 2004 and 2006 and... 

The 43d Chemical Laboratory Company, activated at Edgewood Arsenal on 26 August 1942, was ordered to Hawaii in December of 1943. Upon its arrival it was assigned to theater headquarters (Central Pacific Area) and stationed at Schofield Barracks, where the theater chemical officer, Colonel Unmacht, had laboratory facilities (manned by 8th Chemical Depot Company personnel) already in operation. The 43d took over the existing laboratory functions, added its own equipment, and set to work. The immediate tasks were predominantly within the intelligence portion of the mission—the study and descrip-... 

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