[CPEO-MEF] Solid rocket recycling

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Anniston Defense Munitions
Center Recycles TOW Missiles

By Margaret Browne, Joint Munitions Command
Environmental Update (U.S. Army Environmental Commmand)
Fall, 2006

TOW missiles - tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided - entered 
the Army inventory in the 1970s and are still used by many units.

But when a TOW reaches the end of its shelf life, it has only one place 
to go.

The Anniston Defense Munitions Center (ADMC) on Anniston Army Depot, 
Ala., operates the Missile Recycling Center (MRC), where TOWs are 
demilitarized and disassembled for recycling or disposal of components.

The facility is the first of its kind in the nation, according to 
Reginald Smith, munitions operator supervisor.

...

For the entire article, see
http://aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/update/fall06/fall0612.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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