The Ordnance and Explosives Directorate’s Global Operations Division at Huntsville Center has wrapped up work on a five-year, $310 million multi-range cleanup project in Afghanistan.
The division managed the mission of clearing ordnance from 62 now-closed U.S.-operated ranges, most of which were part of forward operating bases that shut down in 2014 and 2015 as coalition troops consolidated into larger, more concentrated areas like Bagram and Kandahar.
As is typical with used ranges, a variety of unexploded ordnance and ammunition was still embedded both on the surface and in the subsurface of the ranges when U.S. forces shut down operations at these locations, according to Eduardo Granados, Global Operations Division chief.
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Source: DVIDS