FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Anniston Army Depot, Alabama ~ 20 MAY 2025

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Anniston Army Depot, Alabama

Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) is a United States Army facility for the production and repair of ground combat vehicles, overhaul of Small Arms Weapon Systems and the storage of chemical weapons, a.k.a. the Anniston Chemical Activity. The depot is located in Bynum, Alabama.

The Department of the Army established the site in 1940, buying 10,640 acres in Calhoun County, where Anniston is the county seat. The site was originally a munitions storage facility, and, later, a disposal facility.

ANAD is the only depot capable of performing maintenance on heavy-tracked combat vehicles and their components and houses a state of the art 250,000 square feet Small Arms Overhaul facility, which opened in January 2012 to replace an outdated facility.

The depot is designated as the Center of Technical Excellence for the M1 Abrams Tank and is the designated candidate depot for the repair of the M60 Patton tank, AVLB (Armoured vehicle-launched bridge), M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle, M88 Recovery Vehicle and M551 'Sheridan' Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault vehicles.

ANAD is the Army's primary site for final assembly, reset, and overhaul for the Stryker family of wheeled fighting vehicles. All ten of the Stryker vehicle variants are assembled in the Nichols Industrial Park area by contractor General Dynamics − Land Systems.

Stryker battle damage repair and reset is accomplished through a work sharing arrangement between the depot and contractor, including a Stryker Exchange Program that converts the original flat bottomed Stryker vehicle to the IED-resistant Double V Hull configuration developed for combat operations in Afghanistan.

The depot houses and operates a facility for the repair, restoration, and/or upgrade of infantry weapons such as the Beretta M9 pistol, M16 rifle, and M2 machine gun. Any firearm deemed unusable or obsolete is destroyed on the premises, the materials are reduced to unusable pieces and then sold for scrap to be melted down.

Tanks and other equipment are repaired and tested, but historically Anniston's main role since World War II has been as a major munitions storage site. Anniston is one of seven depots in the United States where chemical weapons were stored (7.2% of nation's chemical weapons stockpile). The stockpile has included rockets, bombs, projectiles, and land mines armed with Sarin, VX nerve agent, or mustard gas. The last chemical munitions were destroyed in September 2011.

Learn More About Anniston Army Depot HERE!!

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[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, it's Road Trip time again, thanks Lauren!

[luvie]

~ Road Trip: Anniston Army Depot, Alabama ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you PROCON!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy and thanks luvie!

*HUGS*

[luvie]

Hi! You’re very welcome. Hope you’re having a blast with family! Did Addy have a wonderful birthday?

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Hi Everybody!

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[luvie]

Great Road Trip to Anniston, lauren!
God bless our troops wherever they are!

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[laurenmarlowe]

Hi there!

Having a total blast with everyone, such a wonderful trip. And next week, all the family will be here for the graduation, all 35 of us together. Ought to be fun!

Not missing the crazy Texas weather at all, hope you all are good.

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you left that other site!

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[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy SkyDancer!

[jra]

Is this a thing locals can attend?

[SkyDancer]

Hi! Just hanging ....

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi jra, thanks for joining us this evening!

We visit all the active US military bases virtually every Monday evening in support of our Troops and Veterans.

If it were up to some of us, we would just drive around the country all the time and visit with everyone! But, we just have to visit electronically.

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[luvie]

Oh, DUH! Graduation...not birthday. It just dawned on me, since her birthday is right before Piper’s. LOL! It’s crazy that all 35 of you will be in the same space at the same time!

Has she decided where she wants to go to college?

All is well here. Just hot of course. 100º☀️ coming up on Saturday. I could do without THAT kind of heat.

[luvie]

Yeah, I miss visiting with everyone at the same time! *sigh*

[luvie]

Howdy, Janey! Lots of ubering going on this week? Have you had that fun trip to Vegas yet?