SERVING
Those That
SERVED
Location: Fort Detrick
Date: August 1961- June 1963
Site: Primary screening carried out in greenhouses on 14-day old bean plants; secondary screening sprayed in greenhouses at 1,5, 10 lbs/ac on tree seedlings.
Location: Fort Detrick
Date: 1967-1968
Site: Greenhouse studies on 14-day old red kidney beans.
Location: Fort Detrick
Date: May 21, 1968
Site: 11 plots, 20 x 20 sq ft
Location: Fort Detrick
Date: June 12 - September 12, 1968
Site: Laboratory and greenhouse studies.
Location: Fort Detrick
Date: May 2 and 12, 1969
Site: Redcoat winter wheat plots.
Location: Fort Detrick
Date: 1970
Site: Controlled environmental chamber with individual potted plants.
Location: Fort Meade
Date: August 2, 1963
Site: 24 Plots, each approximately 150 square feet.
Location: Fort Meade
Date: Spring- Summer 1964
Site: Isolated area of an abandoned farm; area was marked off in 225 sq ft plots.
Location: Fort Ritchie
Date: July 11-12, 1963
Site: Eighteen individual trees each of: white ash, American elm, red maple, black locust, chestnut oak, and northern red oak.
*Now known as Fort Detrick.
Mississippi
Location: Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport
Date: 26 June 1968 - June 10, 1977
Site: Secure 12-acre storage area. Marshalled for shipping to Vietnam/then storage pending guidance on disposal.
Location: Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport
Date: May 24 - June 10, 1977
Site: Redrumming facility. Drums were moved to redrumming facility where the drum heads were removed and herbicide was sucked through intake hoses into tank railcars. Rail cars were then moved to the dock where the herbicide was transferred to the Vulcanus, a privately-owned incineration ship.
Montana
Location: Bozeman
Date: July 3, 6, and 14, 1953
Site: Gallatin Valley. Field evaluations of chemical agents for attacking wheat using miniature spraying systems mounted on a light aircraft.
New York
Location: Fort Drum
Date: May - October 1959
Site: Four square miles (2,560 acres) area located in an artillery impact area. Access to it on the ground was not possible. Applied with H-21 helicopter.
Tennessee
Location: Power line from Hiwassee Dam, NC to Coker Creek, TN
Date: June 17; July 2,3; 1964
Site: Seven plots, each 200 X 750 feet. Right of way 200 feet wide on the power line from Hiwassee Dam, NC to Coker Creek, TN. Compounds were applied by Bell helicopter.
Texas
Location: Kelly AFB
Date: November 18, 1970 - Unknown
Site: Storage in Yard 62, East Kelly area.
Utah
Location: Dugway Proving Ground
Date: August 7 & 8, 1963
Site: Downwind Grid
Location: Dugway
Date: September 14 -October 6, 1964
Site: Firing range. To determine suitability of the Army Interim Defoliation System for the US Army OV-1 (MOHAWK) aircraft.
Herbicide Tests & Storage Locations in the U.S.
