The Defense Department today released a "Munitions Action Plan" designed to manage its ammunition stockpile from acquisition and production through demilitarization. The plan "recognizes and integrates requirements to develop, test and train with munitions while protecting human health, safety, and the environment -- thereby improving and sustaining our readiness, environmental and explosives safety postures," write Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health Raymond Fatz and Rear Adm. Joseph Krol, Jr., assistant deputy chief of naval...
