• Thumbnail for Hawthorne Army Depot
    Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is a U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the...
    11 KB (1,263 words) - 18:03, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hawthorne, Nevada
    Mineral County. The nearby Hawthorne Army Depot is the primary economic base of the town. The first permanent settlement at Hawthorne was established in 1880...
    16 KB (928 words) - 01:07, 17 July 2024
  • Illinois Hawthorne, Iowa Hawthorne, Louisville, Kentucky Hawthorne, Minneapolis, Minnesota Hawthorne, Nevada Hawthorne Army Depot near Hawthorne, Nevada...
    2 KB (257 words) - 10:56, 1 March 2021
  • Thumbnail for Walker Lake (Nevada)
    located along the western shore of the lake. The Hawthorne Army Depot, the world's largest ammunition depot, fills the valley to the south of the lake. U...
    17 KB (2,087 words) - 23:00, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for M687 155 mm projectile
    1997 at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada. America's remaining stocks were stored at the Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah, and the Umatilla Chemical Depot (Umatilla...
    3 KB (344 words) - 22:04, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joint Munitions Command
    government-owned, contractors operate the 10 production-only facilities and Hawthorne Army Depot. The following installations closed on or before 2011 as part of...
    8 KB (679 words) - 13:55, 2 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mountain Warfare Training Center
    179 ft (4,322 m), the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) and Hawthorne Army Depot for live fire exercises. 38°21′24″N 119°30′59″W / 38.35667°N 119...
    10 KB (908 words) - 19:23, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hawthorne Ordnance Museum
    States Navy and the United States Army which were manufactured and stored in an ammunition depot based in Hawthorne. The museum is operated by a local...
    3 KB (284 words) - 01:08, 17 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Nevada
    smaller Creech Air Force Base is in Indian Springs, Nevada; Hawthorne Army Depot in Hawthorne; the Tonopah Test Range near Tonopah; and Nellis AFB in the...
    162 KB (13,409 words) - 01:51, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centrocercus
    Dugway Proving Ground and Tooele Army Depot in Utah; Sheridan Training Area and Camp Guernsey in Wyoming; Hawthorne Army Depot and Nellis Air Force Base in...
    16 KB (1,569 words) - 00:40, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Grant (Nevada)
    topographically prominent peaks in the state. The peak is located within the Hawthorne Army Depot, resulting in very limited public access. Mount Grant was named after...
    5 KB (287 words) - 13:49, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Army Special Forces selection and training
    Mountaineer course. Practicing IED detection and clearing at the Hawthorne Army Depot. Chemical Recon Detachment training at Fort Carson. Two instructors...
    50 KB (5,963 words) - 16:15, 29 June 2024
  • July 1912 until September 1921. In 1929, construction of the nearby Hawthorne Army Depot started with Thorne being the shipping point. In 1937, Thorne was...
    6 KB (458 words) - 14:06, 24 June 2024
  • Hawthorne Army Depot (eliminated shells 1999) Newport Chemical Depot (closed 2008) Pine Bluff Chemical Activity (closed 2014) Umatilla Chemical Depot...
    8 KB (890 words) - 06:17, 15 August 2024
  • Ordnance Depot, and its primary use was the storage of ammunition used in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It was renamed Navajo Army Depot in 1965...
    4 KB (465 words) - 15:44, 24 August 2022
  • hallucinating agent occurred at Pine Bluff Chemical Activity in Arkansas. Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada destroyed all M687 chemical artillery shells and 458 metric...
    27 KB (3,217 words) - 09:20, 13 June 2024
  • Plant. HW Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant (HWAAP) [1977-1995] / Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) [1996–Present] - Hawthorne. LC Lake City Army Ammunition...
    28 KB (3,549 words) - 10:16, 10 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Nevada
    Fort Halleck, Fort McDermit, and Fort Schellbourne. The current Hawthorne Army Depot was established for munitions production in 1930. Senator Pat McCarran...
    51 KB (5,576 words) - 12:20, 16 June 2024
  • involves a bypass road across Bureau of Reclamation property. The Hawthorne Army Depot is connected to the Union Pacific rail network by a 120-mile (190 km)...
    6 KB (408 words) - 22:58, 14 November 2023
  • when a mortar explodes during a training exercise in the Hawthorne Army Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada. Because of the accident, the Pentagon has banned...
    188 KB (15,989 words) - 00:43, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jan Brewer
    Jan Brewer (category People from Hawthorne, Nevada)
    Perry Wilford Drinkwine, then a civilian supervisor at the Hawthorne Army Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada. Brewer is of English and Norwegian descent. Her maternal...
    73 KB (7,080 words) - 21:23, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for U.S. Route 95 Truck (Hawthorne, Nevada)
    Highway passes by the truck and cargo entrance to the Hawthorne Army Depot. The highway enters Hawthorne city limits before reaching its northern junction...
    4 KB (308 words) - 01:37, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of American military installations
    Wood Fort William Henry Harrison (ARNG) Camp Ashland (ARNG) Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot Center Strafford Training Site (ARNG)[citation needed] Fort...
    60 KB (4,052 words) - 14:53, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for EMD MRS-1
    EMD MRS-1 (category United States Army locomotives)
    Five EMD MRS-1s were sent to the Naval Ammunition Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada (now the Hawthorne Army Depot), but were unsuccessful there and placed into storage...
    13 KB (1,332 words) - 13:12, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines
    Governor, and the Marines of 3/23 (supported by Marine and Army Civil Affairs Groups, as well as an Army Military Police Company) set about reestablishing government...
    29 KB (3,134 words) - 01:23, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Picatinny Arsenal
    led to creation of a remote, safe depot to serve the West Coast, which became the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, in Nevada, opened in 1928. The arsenal...
    26 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hawthorne Bomb Plot
    Hawthorne Bomb Plot is a Formerly Used Defense Site that had a Strategic Air Command (SAC) AUTOTRACK radar station during the Cold War. Operations began...
    9 KB (643 words) - 13:44, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Naval Base Eniwetok
    used as an ammunition depot. Seabees of the 126th Battalion built a second fleet recreation center on Runit Island, codename Hawthorne, six weeks later it...
    35 KB (4,340 words) - 06:40, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Smith (British Army officer, born 1816)
    with the private army of the East India Company in London on 3 October 1837. Following his training at the East India Company's depot in Chatham, Smith...
    8 KB (899 words) - 18:32, 5 August 2024
  • NATO Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) REFORGER corps 1st Cavalry Division (Armored)Note 1, at Fort Hood (TX); REFORGER unit with POMCUS depots at Grobbendonk...
    91 KB (11,761 words) - 00:25, 19 August 2024