FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas ~ 24 JAN 2012

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

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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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[HopeandGlory]

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of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

Prayers going up

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please note: The author of tonight’s Road Trip is laurenmarlowe.
She is hard at work....no days off til sometime in February.

~ Road Trip: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas ~

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BOSTON, (Oct. 21, 2009) Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).



Detachment of Marines in 1812 regalia aboard USS Constitution.

OUR TROOPS ROCK!!!!!!!

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Permission Granted!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And in first....Nana Hope grabs the gold!!

[SandRat]

Oh yes, in.

[Tanniker Smith]

Good evening, Kathy! Good evening, all!

Finals are over and Regents exams start tomorrow. I'm proctoring Algebra ... and then grading for the rest of the week.

[ColdOne]

Hello From Idaho....

Saw something today that was strange.......the sun!!!!lolololol!!

God Bless

**hugs**

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Ladies!

*HUGS*

Thanks very much for tonight's Road Trip to Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas. They are doing crucially important work there - defenses against chemical and biological warfare are more important now than at anytime in the past, IMHO. Way to go, Army!

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!
I had a long day, but now i am watching an amazing version of Rigoletto with Pavarotti as the Duke...
The Character reminds me of Bill Clinton...

[Kathy in Alaska]

And in second....Hawaii snags the silver!!

[ConorMacNessa]

Hi, ML!

*HUGS*

Is that the production with Leo Nucci as Gilda's father? I think I saw that on the telly some years ago.

How's it going with you this evening?

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Nana Hope, for today's Pledge…((HUGS)).. Thanks, AfghanMan and Penguin Girl, for your service to America.

[left that other site]

Gilda is Edita Gruberova, and her father Rigoletto is sung by Ingvar Wixell. It was filmed in actual Renaissance Buildings in Mantua. It is a 1981 production. Pavarotti is amazing in it even if he IS playing a major SKUNK. LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top three....Mac bags the bronze!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, TS...((HUGS))

Hurrah for you...finals are over!

Good luck with your proctoring and grading of papers.

[ConorMacNessa]

Pavarotti was a blessing to and treasure of the entire world. So sad he is no longer with us.

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!