2021 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:12:51 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Unexploded ordinance at Redstone Arsenal (AL)
 
Unexploded ordnance represents remnant of Redstone’s past

By JONATHAN STINSON 
Redstone Rocket (AL)
February 10, 2021

A hunter was walking through the woods a couple of weeks ago on Redstone in a wooded area near Interstate 565 when they came upon a cache of ordnance that included various 20-millimeter, 40-millimeter and seven variable time fuses that you would use on artillery shells.

It’s not every day you come across unexploded ordnance, but it’s not a rare occurrence on Redstone either.

It happens enough that every hunter who participates in the post’s hunting program has to take an unexploded ordnance class to teach them what to do when they encounter it.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.theredstonerocket.com/news/article_85f051aa-6bbc-11eb-823b-47590110b403.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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