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Pentagon expands ammunition production to avoid shortfall.
Byline: Stephen J. Hedges
WASHINGTON _ The pace of training and combat required of U.S. troops in Iraq is prompting the Army to quadruple its production of small-arms ammunition compared with prewar levels, a move intended to stave off an ammunition shortage like the one the Pentagon faced last summer.
The Army within months will award manufacturing contracts for ammunition used in its M-16 and M-4 rifles and .50-caliber guns. Since shortly after the Vietnam War, that ammunition has been made at only one location in the United States, the sprawling Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo.
But the intensified training of troops, particularly National Guard and Reserve units that find themselves in hostile situations throughout Iraq, has meant units are quickly running through the Pentagon's ammunition stockpiles. Last summer the Defense Department turned to ammunition makers in South Korea, Canada and…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Pentagon expands ammunition production to avoid shortfall.
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