Ordnance Brewing, Boardman, Oregon

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While thrifting I saw this pair of pints; Boarman Ordnance Brewing. I really like these because for years I would drive past the Umatilla Army Deport out side of Umatilla and Boardman, OR.  There are miles and miles of mole mounds that used to house some of our arsenal's deadliest chemical munitions. It's a shell of its once greatness and as a vet and seeing this old war / Cold War remnant always and still makes me curious as to how and when it "ticked".     

 

From wiki: The Umatilla Chemical Depot (UMCD), based in Umatilla, Oregon, was a U.S. Army installation in the United States that stored chemical weapons. The chemical weapons originally stored at the depot consisted of various live munitions and storage containers each holding 1 short ton (2,000 lb; 910 kg) GB or VX nerve agents or HD blister agent. All munitions had been safely destroyed by 2011 and base closure operations were still ongoing as of 2022.

 

History: The Umatilla Ordnance Depot (later the Umatilla Army Depot) opened in 1941, to prepare for World War II. The depot's mission was to store and maintain a variety of military items, from blankets to ammunition. The depot took on its chemical weapons storage mission in 1962 and stored 12% of the nation's stockpile. From 1990 to 1994, the facility reorganized in preparation for eventual closure, shipping all conventional ammunition and supplies to other installations.

 

 

You can see the water tower (as depicted on the pint) in the left center of this photo and the mole mounds in the background.