Naval Weapons Stations
For many years the United States Navy has used both domestic and foreign weapon stations to develop, test and store a wide variety of weapons. There are dozens weapon stations worldwide and every site is selected based on strategy and its proximity to a potential threat. The Navy uses these sites mostly for testing purposes since the end of the Cold War since there are very few viable threats left in the world. These places had less rate of asbestos exposure and less people were afflicted with mesothelioma being in that the weapons were often not actually built here.
The Naval Weapons Station Earle, located on more than 10,000 acres in Colts Neck, New Jersey has a history dating back to 1943, when it was obvious a large ammunition depot was needed to guard the New York area in support of World War II. The location of the site gave the Navy's fleet a safe and advantageous port in which to take in ammunition, and it also had commercial railway access to the west, which allowed it to get the ammunition on a regular basis. The rural location allowed for minimal displacement of the population and further safety from any attacks the depot would attract. It has become the premier east coast homeport and port of call for all Atlantic Fleet ships and the premier ordnance dispensing port in the entire Navy. The station's pier complex is recognized as one of the worlds largest finger pier extensions in the world, stretching more than one mile from the shore.
The Naval Weapons Station in Concord, California is nestled on a nearly 13,000 acre lot in the northern section of Contra Costa County. The station is separated into two divisions, the inland consisting of 5.170 acres and the Tidal made up of 7.630 acres. The Navy depends on the Concord Station to be a vital ammunition port for the entire Pacific fleet. Located near the confluence of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers, the station was built up during the first part of World War II to support the heavy explosive demands of the Pacific War. It still remains as one of the largest loaders and unloaders of ammunition for the Pacific fleet and other unloading and loading operations for non military cargo vessels. The seventy-nine miles of roadway and more than one hundred miles of railway at the station make it fit to handle the quick and repeated dispersing of cargo and ammunition. During the peak war times the Concord, California station had the ability to deliver more than 4500 tons of munitions per day. The station's location on the western sea board make it an obvious choice to help protect the nation from attacks from the Far East and abroad and to launch weapons toward Asia if needed.
These are only two of the dozens of Naval Weapons Stations strategically located throughout the world. The world wide gathering of weapons and munitions make logistic of war easier on the United States Navy and the large build up of missiles at several of the stations also act as a deterrent to any nation attempting to launch an attack on the United States. There was a high price to pay for hoarding all of these weapons however, and that price was the men and women who died as a result of asbestos exposure during the building of them. Mesothelioma was a common killer in those days.
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