[CPEO-MEF] West Point (NY) ordnance

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Underground at West Point

By Greg Bruno
Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
May 12, 2006


West Point - Armed with a global positioning receiver and $30,000 in 
gear, Shannon Totten sets his sights on the Target Hill firing range. 
Buried bombs are on the menu.

"This is for collecting data," he explains, nodding toward a metal 
detector that looks more like a rickshaw than a tool for uncovering 
forgotten weapons.

"We can see a 55-gallon drum 8 or 9 feet down," he says.

For more than two centuries, U.S. Military Academy cadets have launched 
rockets and missiles into the rocky bluffs upon which the historic 
Academy sits.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/05/12/news-gbunexploded-05-12.html
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