Munitions Storage
A munitions storage and maintenance center, Anniston employs over 2,000 people and covers 25 square miles of land. Tanks and other equipment are repaired and tested here, but historically Anniston's main role has been as a major munitions storage site since WWII. Chemical weapons are among the...
Fallbrook, located on the eastern edge of the Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton, is a navy base used for storing loading Navy vessels operating on the Pacific. Administratively, Fallbrook is a detachment of Seal Beach Naval Weapons station in Orange County, the largest Navy weapons storage site on the...
The largest ammunition storage depot in the country. There are 3,500 buildings on the 147,000 acre main facility, located in western Nevada. Operated by the Day Zimmerman Hawthorne Corporation for the Army, which acquired the site from the Navy in 1977. Facilities include 2,427 munitions storage...
Rocket motors were produced in this now abandoned industrial complex during World War II and into the 1950's. In the production buildings, heavy walls of cement separated the assembly alcoves from one another, with a shared glass wall to permit an explosion to escape with minimum damage to the rest...
A munitions depot has been operated on Indian Island since World War Two, when in addition to ordnance, the depot was used for the construction and maintenance of defensive netting, which was strung across harbors on the West Coast to catch enemy submarines and torpedoes. Located near Hadlock, off...
An active Army ammunition manufacture, storage, disposal, and training installation in southeastern Oklahoma. The 45,000-acre installation has over 2,400 explosives magazines, of which around 70% are in use. Much of the operations from Illinois' Savanna Army Depot have moved here. Employs around 1,...
Nellis Air Force Base, in North Las Vegas, is one of the busiest bases in the country. War games based out of Nellis, occurring on an almost continuous basis, cover the adjacent ranges and beyond into Utah and California, incorporating almost every known form of military aircraft. Nellis' Area II,...
While the Army Depot near the steel town of Pueblo has officially been deactivated, over 2,000 tons of mustard gas projectiles and cartridges continue to be stored on site, but most of the buildings are being developed into an industrial park. As an active munitions storage facility, established in...
With the official closure of Concord Naval Weapons Center in northern California, Seal Beach is now the Navy's primary munitions storage and loading facility on the West Coast (with the exception of submarine activities, which take place in Washington State). About 100 ships are loaded and unloaded...
Trident missile warheads are stored at this 1.5 square-mile Navy facility, located between Bangor Naval Submarine Base and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
The South Area of the Tooele Depot, also called the Deseret Chemical Depot, is an ammunition storage facility that is home to 42.3% of the nation's chemical weapons. The nearly 30 million pounds of aging mustard and nerve agents are stored in 208 igloos at the facility, awaiting disposal, according...
The Tooele Depot is a 44,000 acre Army facility that was the primary ammunition storage facility for the Army's western district. The Depot consists of two areas, with different functions, separated by 15 miles of state highway. The 24,000 acre North Area has the headquarters, administrative...
Weapons manufacture, storage, service, and supply station for the Atlantic Fleet, located on the York River, a few miles from Colonial Williamsburg, and adjacent to Busch Gardens amusement park. It occupies 11,433 acres, with four miles of waterfront, loading ships off a 2,200 foot U-shaped pier,...