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Unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan poses hidden threat
The hulking old tanks, left to rust when Soviet forces pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, still packed a threat when Albert Whittington arrived. Whittington, an ordnance and explosives specialist with the Baltimore district of the Army Corps of...
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Discovery of WWII shells at state park spurs search
Growing up, George E. Raley Jr. heard stories that the military had conducted some sort of testing during World War II on the quiet Southern Maryland peninsula known as Newtowne Neck.
As an adult, he would learn that his father had assisted in...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), State Parks, St. Mary's City, Natural Resources, New Year's Day
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As Clinton visits, old U.S. bombs continue to kill, maim in Laos
World NowAs Hillary Clinton made the first trip to Laos by a U.S. Secretary of State in nearly six decades, activists urged the U.S. to step up its spending to clear the vast stretches of Lao land still littered with unexploded American bombs left over from its... -
Public input sought at meeting about Fort Ritchie cleanup
kate.alexander@herald-mail.comOfficials solicited public input Monday on the cleanup of munitions and groundwater contamination at the former Fort Ritchie U.S. Army base. The Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a five-year review of the remedies set for removing contaminates from...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Environmental Politics, Military Equipment, U.S. Army
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Indio sheriff's station briefly evacuated after resident brings in 'military ordnance'
L.A. NOWThe Riverside County Sheriff's Department station in Indio was temporarily evacuated Wednesday afternoon when a resident brought in a "military ordnance" he had found, authorities said....
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