From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 10 Jun 2007 22:32:31 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Ordnance data base |
Database shows much activityThe Navy, charged with keeping the records, says it has cataloged only 15 percent to 20 percent of the military's bomb squad reports since 2005. BY JOHN M.R. BULL Newport News Daily Press (VA) June 7 2007A database whose existence was repeatedly denied by the Navy shows that military bomb squads were called off base 180 times last year to deal with munitions found in communities nationwide. And that's only 15 percent to 20 percent of all military bomb squad calls off post, the Navy conceded. If that's accurate, the military picked up suspected munitions 900 to 1,200 times last year alone in the United States. The never-before-released database is incomplete.That's because, the Navy said, the operation that tracks those responses is backlogged with incident reports and has been busy processing technical data on improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, found in Iraq. The database reveals a deadly diversity of explosives recovered in 2006 and the tail end of 2005 - including 56 grenades, 23 flares and nine mortar rounds. ... For the entire article, see http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-22181sy0jun07,1,392831.story?ctrack=1&cset=true -- Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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