2005 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 4 Jan 2005 16:59:41 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Rounds found in Pennsylvania woods
 
Boy, 9, finds bazooka training rounds in woods

Associated Press
LancasterOnline.com (PA)
January 3, 2005 

SEVEN VALLEYS, Pa. - A 9-year-old boy playing in the woods beside his
grandparents' home found three bazooka training rounds, authorities said.

Nathaniel Heltzel discovered the rounds, which were about a foot long, Saturday.

None of the rounds contained explosives, Lt. Col. Chris Cleaver,
spokesman for the Pennsylvania National Guard, said Monday. A bomb squad
based at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard training center was
summoned to pick up the ordnance.

Two of the foot-long rounds were of World War II vintage and the third
dates to the Vietnam era. The rounds will be destroyed but there is no
need to detonate them, Cleaver said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/ap/4/pa_grenades_found

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