FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas ~ 20 JAN 2015

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas

The Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) is a United States Army installation located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. PBA is one of the six Army installations in the United States which stores chemical weapons. PBA supplies specialized production, storage, maintenance and distribution of readiness products, and delivers technical services to the Armed Forces and Homeland Security.

PBA also designs, manufactures and refurbishes smoke, riot control, and incendiary munitions, as well as chemical/biological defense operations items. It serves as a technology center for illuminating and infrared munitions and is also the only place in the Northern Hemisphere where white phosphorus munitions are filled. Its Homeland Security mission includes first-responder equipment training and surveillance of prepositioned equipment.

PBA satisfies the Department of Defense’s peace time and replenishment requirements by providing the U.S. and allied forces with critical products and services that are primarily unavailable from other sources.

PBA also provides specialized training and logistical support for the Department of Homeland Security. PBA’s core primary missions include: conventional ammunition, chemical biological defense, engineering and technical support, mobile and powered systems support and base operations support to numerous tenant activities. Also a conventional depot, PBA has 1.3 million square feet of storage capacity with over 75,000 tons of inventory.

PBA has the capability to produce, renovate and store over 60 different conventional ammunition products ranging in caliber from 440 mm to 175 mm. 85 percent of these products are produced only at PBA. The Arsenal’s specialties include production of munitions containing payloads for smoke (signaling, spotting and obscuration), non-lethal, riot control, incendiary, illumination and infrareduses.

Smoke payload capabilities include white phosphorous, red phosphorous, terephathalic acid (TA) and hexaclorethane (HC) for both munitions and grenades. PBA is the only facility with the capability to fill white phosphorous munitions. The Arsenal is capable of producing munitions designed to provide friendly forces the capability to stop, confuse, disorient or momentarily deter a potential threat without use of deadly force.

Chemical/biological defense is a growing field of expertise at PBA. The Arsenal’s leadership in the field of protective mask fabrication, repair and recertification dates back to the late 1970s. Today, PBA is the Army’s sole facility for the repair and rebuild of the M17 series,
M9A1, M24, M25A1 and M40 masks as well as the M20 breathing apparatus. The Arsenal fabricates, fits, and tests chemical biological protective filters in various sizes and configurations.

CB Defense industrial capabilities at PBA include the manufacture of personnel and equipment decontamination kits; repair, renovation and testing of chemical protective clothing; and the rebuild and calibration of defensive chemical test equipment. Since the nation’s increased focus on homeland defense, PBA has initiated programs for the training of civilian first responders and providing CB Defense technical equipment assistance and training for local jurisdictions.

Learn More About Pine Bluff Arsenal HERE!

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Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

[beachn4fun]

Good morning EG ((HUGS))

All is well considering I’m back in the office.

Howz it out your way?

[E.G.C.]

Well, it's going much better for me this morning. I've just about shaken this cold.(Still coughing a little).

I was sore at one point in a whole host of spots due to all of the hard coughing. Still a little sore in the right posterior.

Bo and I did go out to the vet yesterday for his monthly dose of anti-flea repellent. Later in the day we went out to the lake and had a great time. There were some people fishing out there too.

[PROCON]

Morning Beachie!

Wow, that Green Bay/Seattle game is still on my mind, what a comeback by Seattle and what a choke by Green Bay. I'm happy :-)

It's been sunny and 55 or so for the last few days, how about you?

Better pour some more coffee and hit it.

Have a grandocious day!

[MEG33]

Good Morning To The Canteen

We're having springlike afternoons.
I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
I Wish You All A Good Week

[PROCON]

Morning MEG, we have spring like weather too, Woo-Hoo.

[MEG33]

TEA I am happy for us! Wish we could bottle ir and send where it’s frosty.

[MEG33]

YEA...LOL The T is too close to the Y.
;o)

[HiJinx]

Hey, bottling it is a great idea! Like this:

[PROCON]

LOL, cute jinxy :-)

[MEG33]

LOL!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Pro ((HUGS))

Yeah, that Green Bay/Seattle game was something. Had hubby’s BP up and he was ready to fire the defense coordinators by half time.

Dang, sunny and 55? We should be so lucky! It rained like crazy on Sunday; so much so that we didn’t get even close to being motivated to get up and get moving until late, which is unusual for us. The sun keeps trying to get out from behind the clouds but the clouds are winning.

I thought the sun shone only one day a year out your way ;)

Enjoy your coffee and your day.

It’s almost lunchtime and I’ll be browsing online in a few.

Happy terrificiously tasty Tuesday.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Meg ((HUGS))

UGH! Send that springlike weather this way, please.

[MEG33]

(((HUGS)))
I’ll have to hurry... express mail..It ends Thursday.