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Ongoing construction this year in Lawrenceville near the location of the historic Allegheny Arsenal has kept Army explosive ordnance disposal teams busy.

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In a move to deepen Portsmouth harbor in preparation for a new class of aircraft carriers, more than 20,000 oddball items lost over time have popped to the surface.

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Construction crews working in the Lawrenceville neighborhood Monday stumbled upon a tangible reference to the area's industrial past that needed bomb squad intervention.

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The ancient Bavarian town of Augsburg called for one of the largest post-WWII evacuations in German history on Christmas after a live 2-ton bomb was unearthed.

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Construction workers at first thought they had unearthed an old wrecking ball. Then after a closer look, a historian called the police who in turned placed a call to Fort Stewart.

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Engineers and technicians have spent the last two months turning live artillery shells, recovered from the mud of Savannah harbor, into inert museum pieces.

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U.S. Navy divers working in the muddy waters of the Savannah River pulled up the first of many cannon recovered from the wreck of the Confederate ironclad CSS Georgia

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An Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal expert crushed the world record for fastest mile run in a fully functional 75-pound bomb disposal suit by a female. First Lt. Ashley Sorensen ran a mile in the “hurt locker,” clocking in at 11 minutes and six seconds, clearing the previous record by more than two minutes. Sorensen trained […]

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