31 Aug 2022

Army engineers remove World War II-era explosives from national historic landmark on a remote Alaskan island

Boom! Another explosion went off as a field crew for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District worked to safely clear and detonate munitions remaining from the World War II-era Fort Glenn, an abandoned military installation in the Aleutian Islands 850 miles from Anchorage.

10 May 2016

Munitions disposal mission wraps up in Afghanistan

Huntsville Center’s Joint Munitions Disposal - Afghanistan (JMD-A) team has wrapped up its mission disposing of more than 5,629 tons of U.S. and coalition forces NATO Condition Code H unserviceable and “do-not-return” munitions, as well as captured enemy munitions and explosive remnants of war (ERW).

23 Jun 2014

Munitions disposal a Huntsville Center priority as U.S. units depart Afghanistan

As U.S. units prepare to depart Afghanistan, military leaders must determine whether to send their