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Marine Corps Base Quantico posts noise advisory for live-fire training

If you live near Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia, you could hear loud noises from live-fire training training exercises happening there through Oct. 18.



According to a noise advisory posted to the Marine Corps site, live-fire and demolitions training will include .50 caliber weapons, rockets, mortars and grenades.

Aircraft supporting the exercises can also generate loud noises.

Below is the list of dates for the trainings, per the Marine Corps.

  • Oct. 7, 7 a.m. – 6 p.m.
    Live Fire .50CAL; Rockets; Mortars; Grenades
  • Oct. 8, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 50LBS & Below
  • Oct. 10, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 25LBS & Below
  • Oct. 11, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 25LBS & Below
  • Oct. 12, 5 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 25 LBS & Below and Claymore
  • Oct. 13, 5 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 25LBS & and Claymore
  • Oct. 14, 5 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 25LBS & Below;
  • Oct. 15, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 25 LBS & Below
  • Oct. 16, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Demo 25 LBS & Below
  • Oct. 18, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Live Fire Inerting

Prince William Education Association gathers enough signatures to form collective bargaining unit

This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Teachers from the Prince William Education Association gave notice Wednesday night that they’d collected the requisite signatures to form a collective bargaining unit. The move gives the school board 120 days to either adopt or decline a collective bargaining resolution.
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