Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) is a major United States Army facility fulfilling various depot operations. Primary missions are the repair of tracked vehicles and storage of chemical weapons. The depot is located in Anniston, Alabama. The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... A Tracked vehicle is a vehicle that runs on its own tracks rather than on wheels. ... Dressing the wounded during a gas attack by Austin O. Spare, 1918. ... Anniston is a city located in Calhoun County in Alabama, a state of the United States of America. ...
ANAD is under command of the US Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), although other operators on the facility include the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office, Department of Army Center of Military History, Health Services Command, and Soldier and Chemical Biological Command.
AnnistonArmyDepot (ANAD), though it's best known for housing chemical weapons, has the primary mission of repairing all tracked vehicles for the army with the exception of the Bradley.
AnnistonArmyDepot, located in Anniston, Alabama, is a subordinate of the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command.
AnnistonArmyDepot is the only depot designated to perform depot level maintenance on heavy-tracked combat vehicles and their components.
The Depot is designated as the Center of Technical Excellence for the M1 Abrams Tank, and is the designated candidate Depot for the repair of the M60, AVLB, M728, M88, and M551 combat vehicles.
In 1952, the Depot was assigned a maintenance mission for the overhaul and repair of combat vehicles.
In mid-April 1995, the Depot's Directorate of Chemical Operations was provisionally redesignated as the Anniston Chemical Activity under the U.S. Army Chemical, Biological Defense Command.