[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Ft. Eustis (VA) bomb found

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Eustis officials detonate decades-old bomb

By Austin Bogues
Daily Press (VA)
April 2, 2010

NEWPORT NEWS - Officials at Fort Eustis detonated what might have been a 
99-year-old bomb Thursday night after it was sighted in a construction zone.

Monica Miller Rodgers, a spokeswoman for Eustis, said the shell, which 
had the year 1911 inscribed on it, was stable enough to be transported 
to a remote area of the base for detonation. The discovery of the live 
ammunition is not uncommon in Hampton Roads, a region with a strong 
military presence that has at times misplaced the weapons of war.

The shell was found Thursday morning near Lee Boulevard and Calhoun 
Street on base. Rodgers said base officials know the area was fired upon 
by the now-closed Camp Wallace, where Busch Gardens is located, but 
didn't anticipate shells could reach the location where one was found 
Thursday.

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For the entire article, see
http://articles.dailypress.com/2010-04-02/news/dp-local_ordnance_0402apr02_1_detonation-bomb-remote-area

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