FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland ~ 11 MARCH 2014

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

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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 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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[henkster]

Well it’s off to Ft. Lee then. Kathy, when are we headed there?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, henkster...that does sound like a good road trip, and most interesting things to look at.

[MrEdd]

Spent six months there starting just after new year’s in 1990.

[sauropod]

The Ordnance Museum is now at Ft. Lee.

[Tamatoa]

63W and proud. That is where I went for AIT. First Golf War.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mooch....been thinking about you and your weather.

Did you survive the cold? Warming up some?

[Tamatoa]

Gulf war. Spell check can be an enemy

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland ~

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[MoochPooch]

Weather finally getting warmer, although light snow is expected later. Hope it doesn’t interfere with my plans to go to Chicago for Purim.

[2111USMC]

I spent four months there in 1975 for my MOS training. Even though it was an Army base, there was a small USMC and Navy SeaBee detachment.

It was kind of interesting. The small arms instructors were a mix of Army and Marine.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Connie....I am off for home. Have to put my Mom’s computer back together, then I’ll be back.

Took it and got more memory put in it today.

[cyclotic]

I live a mile from the entrance. The Ordnance Museum is closed. Everything was moved including the old tanks.

I coach a high school robotics team that meets at APG in a new STEM outreach center. I’m one of the few coaches that does not work there.

My kids love it when big stuff goes BOOM and shakes up the house.

[cyclotic]

I live a mile from the entrance. The Ordnance Museum is closed. Everything was moved including the old tanks.

I coach a high school robotics team that meets at APG in a new STEM outreach center. I’m one of the few coaches that does not work there.

My kids love it when big stuff goes BOOM and shakes up the house.

[sauropod]

Last I saw, the big coastal defense gun was still there on the corner where you turn to drive down to CERDEC.

[GreenHornet]

The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) moved to APG a few years ago as a result of the 2005 BRAC. CECOM was previously located at Fort Monmouth, NJ, which was closed. The same BRAC round also directed the move of the Ordnance School, and the Museum, to Fort Lee, Va.

[SandRat]

My Favorite Dough nuts

[MrEdd]

Yup. I was there for 2171 school.

One rainy day in March after the snow was all gone, I marched the troops out into a field and we did calisthenics in a big puddle.
Then we played football in the mud until dark.

We still talk about that game.

The Army canon cockers wouldn’t play us.

[jocon307]

Possibly the greatest place name in America “The Aberdeen Proving Ground”, well maybe second greatest after New York, New York, it’s a contest in my mind.

[AZamericonnie]

Have to put my Mom’s computer back together

Hope it all went well & the "back together" goes smoothly.

[Kathy in Alaska]

In first....Pro grabs the gold!!