Posted on 11/05/2005 9:15:52 PM PST by MGBGUN
Just got word from my daughter stationed at McChord they are evacuating. EOD on base. Anyone one else heard anything?
If you're out of practice, there's lots of UXO scattered around Picatinny Arsenal that you can play with ...
Well sometimes feces occurs.
theres lots of UXO (unexploded ordinance) on Ft Steilacoom too. Its now a state mental institution but they find UXOs all the time...there all duds so far...
Guess where I was stationed in 1966? I learned how to sail on Lake Hapathcon.
By the way, a lot of that UXO is mustard and phosgene gas, did they tell you that?
State metal instution? Put in a suggestion to have an EOD team stationed there, you can solve two problems at one time.
really? they failed to inform us of that...haha figures. thats dangerous stuff...
What about Ft Lewis?
Whats going on?
modern day EOD doesnt waste their "time" with old military posts...they have too much TV to watch. haha...no offense to the veterans
ft lewis is fine....mcchord is now fine. i will find out more tomorrow...
There was an accident at a loading plant right after WWI. When I was there in 66, there had been no attempt to clear it. I heard they made some attempts about 1980 or so.
I'm here on Ft. Lewis. Nothing going on.
Sounds like things haven't changed much, do they still play a lot of volley ball.
I have no idea, I am in Georgia.
Whichever it was, this puppy was designed to do some serious heavy lifting! 5 miles ahead of me after takeoff, it was still probably at less than 500 feet elevation!
It was Kool. I worked at Boeing for years and saw some pretty impressive stuff, but never saw anything that big. Makes a 747 look like a Cessna!!
lifes all gravy right now in tacoma...so far...
Old ordnance shows up all over the country all the time. Here in Florida much of it shows up on beaches after a storm passes through, or turns up when they are preparing land for construction. Most of it turns out to be dummy ordnance, but a few of them are the real thing and very unstable after all these years.
That is correct, if you ever go to France around the old WWI battlefields, don't go out in any of the lakes. They dumped liquid mustard in them and it is still down on the bottom.
Sometime I will tell you about the time we had to get the 500lb bomb out of the pig pen in the leper colony in Vietnam.
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