2013 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:16:56 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Mortar round recovered at Yokota Air Force Base, Japan
 
[According to the text of this article, this may have been a discarded military munition, not unexploded ordnance. - LS]

Yokota traffic stalled while UXO excavated, detonated

By Seth Robson
Stars and Stripes
October 21, 2013

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - Traffic on Yokota Air Base was blocked for several hours Monday after construction workers dug up an unexploded bomb.

Roads linking on-base schools and housing on the east side of the air base to the Yokota Community Center were blocked while explosive ordnance disposal technicians from Yokosuka Naval Station removed a foot-long mortar shell from a worksite.

...

Yokota was a Japanese military facility during WWII. But 374th Airlift Wing spokesman Capt. Ray Geoffroy said it was not bombed by the U.S. and that most of the old ordnance found there was likely abandoned.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/yokota-traffic-stalled-while-uxo- excavated-detonated-1.248235

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