Warning of unexploded munitions from Hawthorne Army Depot in Walker Lake The center's capabilities include demilitarization, desert training for military units, ammunition renovation, quality assurance, ISO intermodal container maintenance/repair, and range scrap processing. An independent contractor runs the depot under an agreement with the government. It is only partially staffed during peacetime, but provision has been made to rapidly expand staffing as necessary. Hawthorne Army Depot stores reserve ammunitions to be used after the first 30 days of a major conflict. It is divided into three ammunition storage and production areas, plus an industrial area housing command headquarters, facilities, engineering shops, etc.
Army Joint Munitions Command ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. Aerial View of Hawthorne Army Depot with Walker Lake to the north (above) and Mount Grant to the west (left).
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