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Munitions access reviewed
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is reviewing the accessibility of its stocks of 30mm shells following an explosion at a Virginia gas station involving a homemade 30mm cannon.
“What we’re checking into are controls to access to our own inventory,” Pentagon spokeswoman Jan Bodanyi said Friday. But she said that since military officials do not have the actual material involved in the incident, a trace cannot be done. „
Federal authorities are investigating what retired Air Force Col. Robert George Dilger, 54, of Xenia, Ohio, and Joseph R. Donahue, 40, of Killeen, Texas, were doing with the 8-foot-long cannon in Arlington, Va., last Tuesday when it discharged, launching a 30mm shell from their truck into a gasoline pump.
The resulting explosion spewed hundreds of metal fragments over a wide area and injured four people.
“We do use 30 millimeter ammunition,” said Bodanyi. “And since the press reports are that that was the type of ammunition he (Dilger) had, we thought we’d go
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