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 (Anniston Chemical Activity). The depot is located in Anniston, Alabama.
Anniston employs over 2,000 people and covers 25 square miles of land. Tanks and other equipment are repaired and tested here, but historically Anniston's main role has been as a major munitions storage site, since WWII. Anniston os one of eight depots in the United Staes where Chemical weapons are stored here (7.2% of nation's chemical weapons stockpile)[1], mostly M55 rockets shells with Sarin, VX, as well as Mustard gas; all of which are stored in some of the hundreds of earthen "igloos" at Anniston.
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 ODCMP Civilian Marksmenship Program]].