Northwest Field Munitions Storage Area

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Covering over 5,500 acres and comprised of 143 storage igloos, 7 operating locations, 23 sited storage revetments and 160 non-sited revetments, the Northwest Field Munitions Storage Area is a high-capacity storage facility dedicated to housing several thousand tons of non-nuclear war reserve munitions for US Pacific Air Force aircraft. Maintained by the 36th Munitions Squadron, the facility is the site of the largest Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile stockpile in the US Air Force as well as over 30 different types of bombs, missiles and countermeasures and their components.

Now operating in a reduced peacetime capacity, the Northwest Field Munitions Storage Area operated at full capacity during the Vietnam War in support of B-52 Stratofortress missions over Vietnam as part of Operations Arc Light, Linebacker and Linebacker II.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammunition_dump

www.andersen.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersen_Air_Force_Base
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Coordinates:   13°36'37"N   144°53'8"E

Comments

  • Used to drive go-carts here 1969-71 with friends.
  • what is A.A.F.B. Munitions?
  • AAFB stands for the Andersen Air Force Base, to the east. It does not mean "Air-to-Air Fire Bomb"
  • 1967: Navy bringing bombs to here, 24/7.
  • This facility may have been mothballed following the end of the cold war. However this is definitely no longer the case. As the U.S. Military continues to shift to a Pacific posture, this facility will continue to be modernized.
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