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February 19, 2009

4-1 pre-deployment exercise

Pvt. Chris Clark and Cpl. Nayeli Garcia stand watch at a marketplace near the location of a leaders' meeting in the simulated "town" of Medina Jabal, located on grounds at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., during a pre-deployment training exercise for Soldiers from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division. For more on this story, see the "Centerspread" section of our Web site.
Photo by Sgt. Mark Miranda.

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A sheet of shell casings and pieces of ordnance, some possibly unexploded, sits next to an unexploded ordnance recovery device, the remote-controlled ASV Posi-Track MD-70, modified by the Air Force Research Laboratory, used to comb through a portion of the Digital Multipurpose Range Complex on the north end of Fort Bliss’ ranges Feb. 10 during a robotic UXO technology demonstration. Photo by Stephen Baack.

 

Unexploded ordnance
Environmental command leads tech demo at DMPRC

Stephen Baack

Monitor Staff

Key leaders from the U.S. Army Environmental Command, the Aberdeen Test Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers visited Fort Bliss during a daylong robotic unexploded ordnance detection and removal demonstration Feb. 10.

The demonstration was part of the Army’s range modernization effort to showcase technologies designed to make new range construction safer, quicker and less costly.

 

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