[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Army bomb squad disposes of Georgetown [DC] cannon ball"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army bomb squad disposes of Georgetown cannon ball

by Walter Ham, 20th CBRNE Command
Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System
January 23, 2015

WASHINGTON - U.S. Army bomb squad Soldiers disposed of a cannon ball  
that was found in a Georgetown townhouse's chimney here Jan. 21.

Soldiers from the 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company responded  
to the unexploded ordnance discovery at the 1890s townhouse in this  
historic neighbor in the nation's capital.

The homeowner found the cannon ball while repairing his chimney.

Once law enforcement officials and firefighters determined that it  
was a military munition, the U.S. Army bomb squad got called in.


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For the entire story, see
http://www.dvidshub.net/news/152601/army-bomb-squad-disposes- 
georgetown-cannon-ball

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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