Fort Bragg releases new info about military ordnance found in Wake County yard

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Fort Bragg released new information Wednesday on the military explosive that was found in a Wake County backyard.

The military ordnance was found Tuesday in a backyard on Forestville Road. Officials from Fort Bragg said it turned out to be a 30mm training round.

They said the 722nd Ordnance Company received an emergency call from Raleigh Police about a possible unexploded ordnance.

When the Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team arrived, it found the training round in a chicken coop.

On Tuesday, Wake New Hope Fire Chief Ronny Mizell described the training round as more than a foot long and said it appeared to have been in the family's yard for a while.

After investigation, the item was deemed safe to transport, and it was taken to Fort Bragg, where it was disposed of by detonation.

Civilian bomb squads are not authorized to work on military munitions because of the Military Munitions Rule in the Code of Federal Regulations, the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command PAO explained. In those cases, joint service EOD technicians are called when old military munitions are discovered off base.

EOD technicians are the only Department of Defense personnel authorized to respond and render safe unexploded munitions and ordnance, Fort Bragg added.

No one was injured during the incident.

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