Re: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "New Boston [MA] UXO cleanup efforts near completion"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Correction. New Boston AFS is in New Hampshire. Sorry.

LS

On Jan 24, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

> New Boston UXO cleanup efforts near completion
>
>
> by Lt. Col. David Hanson
> 23rd Space Operations Squadron commander and installation  
> commander, New Boston Air Force Station
> Air Force Print News Today
> January 24, 2012
>
> NEW BOSTON AIR FORCE STATION, Mass. -- For a large part of the last  
> six years New Boston Air Force Station, commonly referred to as New  
> Boston Tracking Station, located 12 miles west of Manchester, N.H.,  
> has been heavily involved in unexploded ordnance cleanup efforts.
>
> Currently the installation is one of seven remote satellite  
> tracking stations as part of the Air Force Satellite Control  
> Network, but in the 1940s and 50s, it served as an aerial  
> bombardment and gunnery range for the Army Air Corps and later, the  
> Air Force. Fourteen years of bombing scattered munitions including  
> 100-pound live and 2,000-pound practice bombs, 50-caliber and 20- 
> millimeter rounds and up to 5-inch rockets throughout the base. The  
> Department of Defense initiated a cleanup effort that targeted  
> NBAFS and other former bombing ranges in the early 2000s. These  
> types of clean-up efforts are performed in various phases and  
> typically take many years.
>
> ...
>
> For the entire release, see
> http://www.schriever.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123287303
>
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