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ABERDEEN, Md - The Army will be demonstrating new "green" ammunition at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. The military began providing the lead-free round last June to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. It replaces ammunition used since the early 1980s. A live-fire demonstration will be held Wednesday morning at the post. Soldiers will fire the new and old rounds, as well as a third type, to compare the performance of all three on identical targets.

Just a heads up that they will be testing a 500 pounder at Aberdeen Proving Gound in the next hour or so. Employees are being told to leave post or they will be stuck in offices for a while.

To think that Boris and Natasha lived right here in South Dakota, and we didn't even know it! Recently, Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Steingraber-Trebilcock-Myers - a couple who once lived in Aberdeen - were arrested for spying. The news rocked the nation. Well, actually, the nation immediately forgot the story. Still, South Dakota hasn't forgotten. It's not every day suspected spies are found traipsing through your own neighborhood. The espionage likely started after they left Aberdeen, but you still wonder if that abandoned shopping cart you saw in aisle 8 of Kessler's might have contained a coded message. The...

Last week a Department of State retiree and his wife were arrested and charged with spying for Cuba for thirty years. In this article I will sort out what we know, don't know and need to explore about this matter. Walter Kendall Myers, Jr .and his wife Gwendolyn Steingarber Myers

The U.S. Army said Friday it will immediately repair barracks at eight facilities in the wake of inspection at bases worldwide. The inspections were done the last week of April and covered nearly 150,000 barracks rooms. They found that 45 repairs needed priority attention, including new heating and cooling equipment, repainting, mold removal and other work. Army Secretary Pete Geren has said that $248 million in emergency funds has been appropriated to fix problems found during the inspections. The Army on Friday identified eight installations that will get priority attention: Fort Polk, La.; Fort Gordon, Ga.; Fort Bragg, N.C.; Fort...

(AP) ABERDEEN, Md. Military officials say a man shot by Aberdeen police is a soldier who had been away from Aberdeen Proving Ground without permission since last month. Army officials say 22-year-old Private Evan Parker, of Pittsford, N.Y., had been AWOL since late August. Aberdeen police say officers called to a disturbance at a motel Sunday night encountered Parker and when they learned his military status, they took him to the base. When officers returned to the motel around 11 a.m. Monday for a suspicious person call, Parker had returned. Police say he displayed a gun and waved it threateningly...

Mayor S. Fred Simmons' habit of carrying a gun around Aberdeen has received criticism from residents in recent weeks. Last week, it got him an award. An organization Simmons says he had never heard of announced it has bestowed upon him the Responsible Democracy Award - because he carries a gun and isn't afraid to say so.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2006 – Decked out in special camouflage jerseys, a Maryland baseball team tonight will show their support for men and women in uniform. The Aberdeen IronBirds, the single-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, will host a Military Appreciation Night at Ripken Stadium, in Aberdeen, Md. “This is our first annual Military Appreciation Night, and this is something we want to continue to support the troops and thank them from the Aberdeen IronBirds and Cal Ripken Stadium,” Lev Shellenberger, director of ticket sales for Ripken Stadium, said. Aberdeen is home to the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground and...

Archaeologists believe they may have discovered one of the oldest churches in Scotland during an excavation in Aberdeen. They are awaiting test results which will confirm whether they have uncovered a religious burial site dating back to the 6th Century. The find was made during Scotland's biggest archaeological dig in the east kirk of St Nicholas Church. So far 300 skeletons have been unearthed, far more than expected. The excavation is part of a £5m renovation of the site.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., March 17, 2006 – Tucked away on a sliver of land at this Army facility in Maryland is a cluster of ordinary-looking, tan-colored buildings encircled by a chain link fence. What goes on inside these buildings, however, is anything but ordinary. A soldier at the Joint Personal Effects Depot cleans a wounded soldier's footlocker, March 16. Photo by Steven Donald Smith  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The buildings are home to the Joint Personal Effects Depot, where all the personal belongings of servicemembers killed and wounded during the war on terrorism are meticulously processed...

ABERDEEN university has been criticised after a portrait of the Dalai Lama was removed from a wall in response to complaints by Chinese students. Supporters of the Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who fled the country in 1959 for India following the Chinese occupation, said the university was bowing to pressure. Pro-Tibet activists are up in arms, and leading campaigner David Lindsey said: "This is a surrender to the Chinese influence in the university and a betrayal of the Dalai Lama. It shouldn't be happening and we want to put him back in his rightful place." The...

Armor shell games & body bags Posted: February 4, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Tom Marzullo © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Corruption and /or incompetence in government contracting goes as far back as records are kept and if history tells us anything of these situations, it is that eternal vigilance is simply an integral part of the cost of purchasing goods and services. The subject is modern armor for our troops – something that has been in short supply for a while now and has become increasingly valuable in tactical, political and financial terms. For decades, there has been an increasing trend...

<p>Adrienne Trout's energetic greetings to troops milling through Baltimore-Washington InternationalAirport on Wednesday morning make her seem more like a cheerleader than a nonprofit director.</p> <p>Mrs. Trout, 35, heads the United Service Organization of Metropolitan Washington's lounge at BWI's international pier.</p>

  Preliminary testing has detected chemical agents in one of 14 metal drums found in northern Iraq. (ABCNEWS.com)   Suspicious Iraqi Drums Preliminary Testing Suggests Chemical Agents; More Testing Needed N E A R  B A Y J I, Iraq, April 26 — Preliminary testing has detected chemical agents in a 55-gallon drum found in northern Iraq near missiles, warheads and suspicious vehicles, ABCNEWS has learned. <! -- begin print page / send page box --> In recent weeks, U.S. forces have found a number of suspicious containers in Iraq that initial tests suggested contained potentially dangerous chemical agents....

  Suspicious Iraqi Drums Preliminary Test Suggests Chemical Agents; More Testing Needed April 26 — A preliminary test on one of 14 55-gallon drums found in a field east of Bayji, Iraq, near missiles and warheads, has indicated at least two chemical agents are present, ABCNEWS has learned. <! -- begin print page / send page box --> In recent weeks, U.S. forces have found a number of suspicious containers in Iraq that on initial tests indicated the presence of potentially dangerous chemical agents. But these earlier finds turned out to be false alarms. However, a Pentagon official said...

Soldier's bunker unnerves police 09/05/2002 Associated Press ABERDEEN, Wash. - An AWOL soldier apparently lived for three months in a hand-dug bunker furnished with an extensive collection of weaponry manuals, ammunition and night-vision goggles. The discovery of the bunker in the woods of north Aberdeen unnerved local and federal authorities, but they say Mikhail Sharov, 25, broke no laws besides trespassing - for which he was sentenced Thursday to 45 days in city jail. Mikhail Sharov was sentenced to 45 days in jail. Sharov was also ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution and $500 in court costs, The Daily World...

HIV arrests made in Aberdeen Defendant says jealousy provoked false claims By Russ Keen American News Writer Two Aberdeen men are in jail facing charges they intentionally exposed others to the HIV virus.It is the second such incident in less than a week in South Dakota, a state that ranks second lowest in the nation for HIV infections with 22 cases confirmed last year. A Huron college student was arrested last week on similar charges.Mark McNeary, Brown County state's attorney, said the Aberdeen men's allegedly reckless actions in potentially spreading the virus that causes AIDS make them a danger to...