FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland ~ 29 DEC 2009

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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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 (APG) was established on the shores of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland’s Harford County in 1917 to provide the nation a site where Army materiel could be developed and tested.  At the same time, the Edgewood Arsenal was established nearby to provide a site for the development, production, and testing of chemical warfare materiel.  The two installations were officially joined as Aberdeen Proving Ground in 1971.

The Army had taken over 69,000 acres of land and water two months earlier. Sandy Hook, NJ and the Army’s proof and acceptance testing ground for ammunition and cannon since 1874 was being closed and the Chesapeake Bay site was selected as the best suited to carry the mission of testing field artillery. From this beginning, APG has grown and evolved into one of the most diversified military installations in the United States.

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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[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Lauren!

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[MrEdd]

Evening

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[edpc]

Love the Ordnance Museum. Grew up in the area and marveled at Tank Row many times as a kid on the drive in to Ruggles Golf Course.

They take great care of the exhibits on the museum grounds. If you get a close up look at that King Tiger, you can see where it was struck multiple times by our munitions and barely got scratched.

[SandRat]

In.

[laurenmarlowe]

WOO HOO Hope! Thank you for our Pledge Of Allegiance!

FIRST!!

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Aloha BIGLOOK!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Evening JJ! *HUGS* And a Very Happy New Year to you!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you MrEdd, it’s great to see you!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

Road Trip: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

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[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy edpc, thanks for joining us this evening.

And thanks for sharing your great story, would really enjoy seeing the Ordnance Museum myself someday!

[laurenmarlowe]

Evening Sand! Thanks for all of the great pictures you have been posting!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi MA! *HUGS*

Hope your Monday is going smoothly!

[cyclotic]

An army buddy of mine took me to the museum two weeks ago. What a cool place. Thanks to all the folks who toil in anonymity there making sure all the systems, weapons and assorted big boy toys work as expected.

[mylife]

Merry Christmas Lauren!

[Kathy in Alaska]

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