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JMC provides bombs and bullets to America's fighting forces – all services, all types of conventional ammo from 2,000-pound bombs to rifle rounds. JMC manages plants that produce more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition annually and the depots that store the nation's ammunition for training and combat.
An ammunition dump, ammunition supply point (ASP), ammunition handling area (AHA) or ammunition depot is a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives. The storage of live ammunition and explosives is inherently hazardous. There is the potential for accidents in the unloading, packing, and transfer of ammunition.
SS John Burke, a Liberty ship carrying ammunition, was hit by a kamikaze pilot and disintegrated in an enormous explosion on December 28, 1944. USS Serpens, 29 January 1945 explosion of an ammunition ship off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal. US Coast Guard-crewed. 254 killed (196 USCG, 57 US Army, and 1 US Public Health Service physician)
Euronews reported that the military ammunition depot had been renovated in 2018, and that the Russian deputy defense minister claimed that "the site met the 'highest international standards' and could defend against weapons such as missiles and 'even a small nuclear attack.'" [11] Euronews also reported that approximately 30,000 tonnes of military munitions were stored at the facility ...
"We are working closely with the Massillon (Lowe's) store. They are also giving us a great discount on materials." The TWi site in Massillon serves 170 individuals 18 and older with disabilities ...
Her son, Alex Klein, is a junior in the Massillon Tiger Swing Band, and she is a 1991 Washington High School alum. The family has had season tickets for more than 40 years, Christy Green said.
Randy Slutz, a retired Massillon police officer, was shopping for a state championship shirt on Dec. 2 at Liberty Screen Printing and Embroidery in Massillon. The store sold more than 740 T-shirts ...
The ammunition storage area aboard a warship is referred to as a magazine or the "ship's magazine" by sailors.. Historically, when artillery was fired with gunpowder, a warship's magazines were built below the water line—especially since the magazines could then be readily flooded in case of fire or other dangerous emergencies on board the ship.