[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, MUNITIONS: Ravenna Arsenal (OH) training facility

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Arsenal gets new life as training facility
National Guard wants site to be used year-round

By BILL RODGERS
Warren Tribune Chronicle (OH)
May 31, 2008


RAVENNA - Van after van of Marine recruits pulled up to the decades-old 
unused buildings at the Ravenna Arsenal Friday.

After turning the warehouses into makeshift barracks, the recruits - 
many just out of high school - fell into formation outside as dozens of 
uniformed soldiers did a headcount and coached them on the upcoming weekend.

"This area has been swept clean of UXO's (unexploded ordnances)," said 
Sgt. Maj. Coral Gillham.

Still, he told the kids that if they found any shells, "bomblets" or 
anything that looked like an explosive on the grounds of the World War 
II-era munitions plant, they should tell one of the Marines.

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http://www.tribunechronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/506076.html?nav=5021

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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