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Military Training: Unexploded Ordnance Found in Lake Michigan

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 31, 1992
Report No. NSIAD-92-95
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Summary:

The Defense Department has been operating military training ranges over parts of Lake Michigan for more than 30 years. In April 1991, the Police Department in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, was notified of a suspicious-looking object on the shore of Lake Michigan, not far from a busy shopping center; military officials later identified the object as a fully armed, air-to-air Sidewinder missile that fishermen had pulled up in a net and later discarded on the beach. Two months later, an unarmed aircraft rocket was retrieved from Lake Michigan, also near Sheboygan. This report examines various aspects of these incidents, including whether mariners are informed of potential hazards and the adequacy of the responses to the ordnance findings.

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