2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:48:08 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MISSILES: Army Recycles
 
ADMC, Amtec have developed a 'chemistry' in missile recycling


BY Miranda Myrick, TACOM LCMC
Army.Mil/News
Septemner 4, 2008

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala.--An award-winning, one-of-its-kind tactical missile demilitarization and recycling program here has fostered a thriving partnership between the Army and Huntsville, Ala.-based Amtec Corporation.

Anniston Defense Munitions Center\'s Missile Recycling Center dismantles obsolete TOW-tube-launched, optically tracked, and wire-guided-missiles that were first manufactured in the early 1970s.

ADMC, a tenant at the depot, is comprised of 125 Army civilians responsible for the receipt, storage, shipment, maintenance, inspection, demilitarization and recycling of ammunition and missiles in support of the joint warfighter.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/09/04/12119-admc-amtec-have-developed-a-chemistry-in-missile-recycling/index.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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