FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas ~ 20 OCT 2009

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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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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Arrowhead...((HUGS))...looks like a nice day for you. Thanks for breakfast.

[Arrowhead1952]

Just getting back to work and sore from the fence building.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hurrah....Bo got to play at the lake!

[beachn4fun]

MA! ((HUGS))
I can't believe I saw your post before I left.

U is so Kewl himself (herself?) just kidding

[SevenofNine]

OH KATHY Guess what I just hear on Hollywood reporter site that Oprah Winfey going have your homey Sarah Palin on her talk show on November 16
Gee need rating boost eh Oprah

[SevenofNine]

Actually my Fairbanks Alaska uncle send me this

http://newsminer.com/news/2009/oct/20/oprah-winfrey-interview-sarah-palin/

She is IT GIRL right now it well known fact Judge Judy kick her a*** in the ratings here in SO CAL

[SevenofNine]

Kathy finally snow in Fairbanks AK

http://newsminer.com/arcticcam/

[SevenofNine]

Actually winter is coming if Barrow getting this much snow LOL!

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/snowice/sea-lake-ice/barrow_webcam.html

[HokieMom]

Thank you! I think he loved that job. I only recently learned it was chemical weapons and not really gunpowder they manufactured there.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I heard about Oprah on the news. I’m not sure how I feel about it, what with her “close” friendship with “her” in the White House.

I hope someone is explaining to Sarah that Oprah is NO FRIEND! DO NOT TRUST HER!!

[SevenofNine]

Well I remember who boo hah hah on when Oprah refuse Sarah Palin on

Reason is because of Oprah friendship with Obama if she want the ratings she better have something that like Sarah Palin prestige Oprah ratings are in tanks

[Kathy in Alaska]

The stick! I must have it. If I can only reach ... How will this drama play out in a Minsk park? Click the arrow. Photo: Viktor Drachev / AFP / Getty Images

[Kathy in Alaska]

Let's call it a draw: I promise to let go right after you do. Photo: Viktor Drachev / AFP / Getty Images