FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland ~ 12 OCT 2010

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Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), the Army's oldest active proving ground, is one of the world's foremost research, development, testing, and training facilities for military weapons and equipment. It is bounded by the Susquehanna and Gunpowder Rivers, the Chesapeake Bay, and the AMTRAK Railroad.

The Installation occupies more than 72,500 acres in Harford County. Notable for its convergence of talents and abilities, APG encompasses more than 60 different tenant activities representing every facet of technology.

Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) was established on the shores of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland’s Harford County in 1917 to provide the nation a site where Army materiel could be developed and tested.  At the same time, the Edgewood Arsenal was established nearby to provide a site for the development, production, and testing of chemical warfare materiel.  The two installations were officially joined as Aberdeen Proving Ground in 1971.

The Army had taken over 69,000 acres of land and water two months earlier. Sandy Hook, NJ and the Army’s proof and acceptance testing ground for ammunition and cannon since 1874 was being closed and the Chesapeake Bay site was selected as the best suited to carry the mission of testing field artillery. From this beginning, APG has grown and evolved into one of the most diversified military installations in the United States.

Aberdeen Proving Ground is home to 9 major commands and supports 70 tenants, 20 satellite and 17 private activities.  The installation provides facilities to perform research, development, testing and evaluation of Army materiel. Facilities include laboratories for research investigations, state-of-the-art ranges, engineering test courses for wheeled and tracked vehicles and a wide variety of research.

  The installation also supports a wide variety of training, including mechanical maintenance, health promotion and preventive medicine, chemical and biological defense, and chemical casualty care, chemical demilitarization.  APG also is host National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve operations and training.

APG’s facilities include nearly 15 million square feet of building space in more than 2,000 buildings (including offices, administrative and training facilities, and warehouses, barracks and family housing). There are more than 40 miles of track, nearly 200 firing positions, 8 medical research laboratories, 10 chemical laboratories, 2 physics laboratories, 5 human engineering laboratories, a materials research laboratory as well as Phillips Army Airfield and Weide Army Aviation Support Facility.

Learn More About Aberdeen Proving Ground HERE!

The United States Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, has one of the world's leading collections of military ordnance, ranging from small arms to 240 large armored vehicles, tanks and artillery pieces, some of the last survivors of their type.

The United States Army Ordnance Museum was established in 1919 to exhibit and preserve captured enemy materiel, and also certain United States ordnance materiel which had been shipped to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., for testing purposes. This exhibit served as a reservoir of information for the systematic study of various types of equipment which is always an important part of the program in the design of new weapons.

Visit The United States Ordnance Museum HERE!

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

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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

 

 

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Night Owl!

With all the nice weather we've had through the summer and early fall, there hasn't been a drought warning issued, which is surprising. Guess the light rains we get at night suffice.....or matters with the economics of the agribusiness has fallen so sharply that water usage has fallen to follow. Go figure.

Watch out for the black ice in the morning.....

[oldteen]

Ahhhh...but, none the less busy...RELAX! It will still be there when you get around to it! ;)

[PROCON]

First known useof equipoise:

Sheesh, didin't know we had so many dictionary experts here on FR!..:=)

Sorry, I repent!!

[oldteen]

Watch out for the black ice in the morning

Absolutely! That is some nasty stuff!

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Dawgg

[TASMANIANRED]

It’s not French, dufuss.

Compound word...Equal and poise....thus balance.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening BigLook, Hugs.

[TASMANIANRED]

I’m parked for the evening...

[TASMANIANRED]

Better watch picking on me..I have friends in many places.

They look after dainty lasses.

[oldteen]

Good for you! Enjoy yourself (even if the evening is almost over!) :)

[BIGLOOK]

Once, one a sleety night in upstate NY, I was exiting a parking lot to a highway that had a slight slope. No problem until fully on the highway, where I did a 360, slid backwards and ended up where I’d started from. Black ice.

[TASMANIANRED]

Gonna go put on a pot of Java.

Night Teeny,

Night Everyone.

[oldteen]

I did a 360, slid backwards and ended up where I’d started from

We get it up in these hills and most of the time, the car hydroplanes. Many a serious accidents have happened over the years.

[oldteen]

Wow...I hope it's decaf...lol.

G'night TAZ! Take care!

[oldteen]

No rain, light allergies, plenty of sun. I think autumn has forgotten us!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I don’t mind driving in the snow, and wouldn’t mind the ice if I was the only one on the road. So many drivers pay no attention to the possible, and then real conditions. They don’t seem to get it that stopping, regardless of what you are driving, is going to take a lot more space than dry conditions.

[HiJinx]

Good evening, Ms. Lauren!!
(Of course, you’re probably gone by now...)
APG is an interesting place to visit. They used to have a foreign materiel exploitation battalion there with all sorts of equipment captured from our adversaries around the world. It was neat to see old Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers in desert camouflage...

[HiJinx]

That’s what I was thinking - most of our work is with CECOM SEC and they are moving their operations to Aberdeen.

Our company is moving offices there, too.

[Kathy in Alaska]

So true...it hurts a bunch.

[BIGLOOK]

If you think northerners drive badly on snowy and icy roads, you ought to see Texans in a dusting of snow.

Bumper cars.