U.S. ARMY JOINT MUNITIONS COMMAND The Joint Munitions Command (JMC), a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, manages the production, storage, distribution, and demilitarization of conventional ammunition for all U.S. military services. What is the Joint Munitions Command? JMC is the latest in a series of commands since World War II that has managed the nation’s ammunition plants. Since 1973, those commands have been headquartered on Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Brig. Gen. Kristin K. French serves as the commanding general of the JMC. The headquarters on Rock Island Arsenal is responsible for munitions production (ammunition plants) and storage (depots) facilities in 12 states. JMC employs 22 military, more than 5,400 civilians, and 6,100 contractor personnel. Of these approximately 11,500 personnel, 681 work in the headquarters on Rock Island Arsenal. JMC has an annual budget of more than $4 billion. What does the JMC do? JMC provides bombs and bullets to America’s fighting forces across all services, including all types of conventional ammo from bunker-buster bombs to rifle rounds. JMC manages plants that produce more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition annually and the depots that store the nation’s ammunition for training and combat. JMC is accountable for $61 billion of munitions and missiles. JMC Principal Locations: • Crane Army Ammunition Activity, Crane, Indiana • McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, McAlester, Oklahoma • Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas • Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Kingsport, Tennesse • Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Middletown, Iowa • Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, Independence, Missiouri • Milan Army Ammunition Plant, Milan, Tennesse • Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Radford, Virginia
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•S cranton Army Ammunition Plant, Scranton, Pennsylvania •A nniston Munitions Center, Anniston, Alabama •B lue Grass Army Depot, Richmond, Kentucky •H awthorne Army Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada • Letterkenny Munitions Center, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • T ooele Army Depot, Tooele, Utah JMC Core Competencies: •S torage •D istribution •D emilitarization •P roduction JMC Core Functions: • JMC provides bombs and bullets to America’s fighting forces across all services, including all types of conventional ammo from bunker-buster bombs to rifle rounds.
U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command ATTN: AMSJM-PCA 2695 Rodman Avenue Rock Island, IL 61299-6000 (309) 782-1514 rock-amsjm-pa@conus.army.mil www.jmc.army.mil usarmy.RIA.jmc.mbx.-amsjm-pa@mail.mil
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