The Anniston Field Office (AFO) team has finished destroying more than one million munition components from the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plants in Colorado and Kentucky, respectively, ending more than a decade of managerial oversight and technical support under the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA). The AFO, located on the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, will now began its closure phase, which is expected to be complete in 2025. Meanwhile, the Anniston Army Depot will continue to support its other missions.

The AFO used a Static Detonation Chamber to destroy the non-contaminated munition components from Colorado and Kentucky, which included bursters, fuzes and rocket motors. This milestone highlights more than 60 years of chemical weapons storage, disposal and destruction support at the Anniston Army Depot. The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility completed destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile stored in Alabama in September 2011. The last munition in the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile was destroyed July 7, 2023, at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

PEO ACWA oversaw the safe destruction of chemical weapons at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado, and the Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond, Kentucky, and continues to oversee the closure phase in both Colorado and Kentucky.