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The Aberdeen Proving Ground, also known as APG, is an Army post located on 72 1/2 acres in Harford County, Maryland. The installation touches the Chesapeake Bay, as well as the Susquehanna and Gunpowder rivers. Created and opened in 1917, APG is the Army's oldest active proving ground. It is composed of two major areas the nothern Aberdeen area and southern Edgewood Area that were combined in 1971. The Edgewood area was previously known as the Edgewood Aresenal. APG was originally used as a center to test military equipment, and the installation's location was chosen due to its closeness to industrial areas. Training for ordnance, or military artillery, started in 1918. Because of that train...
The Aberdeen Proving Ground, also known as APG, is an Army post located on 72 1/2 acres in Harford County, Maryland. The installation touches the Chesapeake Bay, as well as the Susquehanna and Gunpowder rivers. Created and opened in 1917, APG is the Army's oldest active proving ground. It is composed of two major areas the nothern Aberdeen area and southern Edgewood Area that were combined in 1971. The Edgewood area was previously known as the Edgewood Aresenal. APG was originally used as a center to test military equipment, and the installation's location was chosen due to its closeness to industrial areas. Training for ordnance, or military artillery, started in 1918. Because of that training and research, APG is known as the "Home of Ordnance." It is currently used as an Army research, training and testing location. All tanks and wheeled vehicles from the past 50 years have been tested at APG, and chemical warfare research is performed at the proving ground. The proving ground employs more than 7,500 civilians and 5,000 military personnel. It is Harford County's largest employer and also one of the state's largest employers. APG is also home to the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, with an outdoor exhibit featuring equipment and vehicles from different 20th century military conflicts.
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Suing the Army
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler is pushing the Pentagon to do the right thing - obey the law and comply with an Environmental Protection Agency order that it quickly complete a cleanup of serious pollution at Fort Meade. He's threatening to...Tags: Regional Authority, Fort Meade, John D Dingell, Benjamin L. Cardin, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Boy in day care bitten by pit bull
Sun ReporterAn 18-month-old boy was seriously injured when he was bitten by a pit bull yesterday, soon after he arrived at the home of an Aberdeen day care provider, police said. Aberdeen police officers, responding shortly after 8 a.m. to the incident in the 800...Tags: Law Enforcement, Injuries, Animals, Health Treatments, Therapies
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Md. is preparing for BRAC influx
The Sun's article "Report sees risk in BRAC move" (Aug. 14) leaves the wrong impression about the preparations for the base realignment and closure (BRAC) process-related move of jobs to Aberdeen Proving Ground, largely as a result of the planned...Tags: Defense, Armed Forces
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Recent editorials from New Jersey newspapers
Tuesday's (August 19) Star-Ledger of Newark on the Russia-Georgia conflict: Russia has rarely not had Georgia on its mind. In the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union especially, as nostalgia for the old empire grew, the loss of Georgia _ and...Tags: Auction Service, National Government, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Transportation, Health and Safety at Work
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Chemical weapon depots look to weapon-less future
Associated Press WriterDuring the Cold War, the Pine Bluff Arsenal held the secrets of the nation's stockpile chemical and biological weapons against prying Soviet eyes. Now, arsenal commander Col. Bill Barnett worries about disclosing how many gas masks and mortar rounds...Tags: Military Equipment, Treaties, Weaponry, Metal and Mineral, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Complete the mission
A new congressional study on relocating military jobs and strategic communications and surveillance operations from Fort Monmouth, N.J., to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County identifies a number of challenges the Army faces in completing the move....Tags: Terrorism, Defense, Armed Forces, Rush D Holt, Migration
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Report sees risk in BRAC move
sun reporterThe Army faces "significant challenges" in moving its communications, surveillance and electronics operations from Fort Monmouth, N.J., to Aberdeen Proving Ground without disrupting the military's war effort, according to a new congressional report that...Tags: National Government, Contracts, Defense, Steny H Hoyer, Armed Forces
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MTA growth plan stalls
Sun ReporterIn a setback to its ambitious effort to expand the MARC commuter train service, the Maryland Transit Administration has dropped plans to add weekend service to its Penn Line or midday runs to its Camden Line this summer. MTA Administrator Paul J....Tags: Transportation, Railway Transportation, Fort Meade
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Report: Fort Monmouth replication to take years
AP Business WriterThe Army may not be able to fully replace Fort Monmouth's 5,000 civilian employees at its new location in Maryland for about 16 years, according to a federal report issued Wednesday. Fort Monmouth is set to close by 2011 as part of a nationwide base-...Tags: Chris Smith, Defense, Armed Forces
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Trashy Women make their own treasures
Sun ReporterWhen most people finish using products like laundry detergent containers, tin cans, pie tins and greeting cards, they throw them in the garbage or in a recycling bin. But a group of eight local women covet trash that they can make into treasures. "I...Tags: Port Deposit, Metal and Mineral, Building Material
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Ignoring poisons back here on Earth
In last week's interplanetary news, we learned that NASA's Phoenix lander has discovered the toxic chemical perchlorate, an oxidizing agent, in the soil near the north pole of Mars, dimming hopes for discovering life on the red planet. Apparently, no...Tags: NASA, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution, Environmental Politics, Space Programs
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