[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Blow in Place at White Sands Missile Range (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UXO brings loud booms to WSMR


By Drew Hamilton
Alamogordo Daily News
April 24, 2011

Explosive ordnance disposal technicians made some noise on White  
Sands Missile Range when they destroyed some duds at the Small Arms  
Range April 7.

Technicians from UXB International, the company that supports  
ordnance disposal on WSMR, used demolition charges to blow up some  
40mm training grenades that failed to explode during tests conducted  
earlier this year. The grenades, used for training on weapons like  
the Mk 19 automatic grenade launcher, are small blue canister shaped  
devices about the size of a pill bottle.

...

Unexploded ordnance is a major concern on WSMR, which has been a  
training and test facility since World War II. Artillery, rockets,  
bombs and cluster munitions, and small arms have all been used on  
WSMR ranges in the past, and it's possible for unexploded ordnance to  
be found in most range areas. UXO can come in almost any shape, size  
or color, from small blue canisters like the grenades destroyed at  
the small arms range, to larger camouflage colored artillery shells  
and bombs. Anyone that finds something that might be UXO should take  
extreme caution.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.alamogordonews.com/ci_17915866

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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