Army team cleans up chemicals
Vials that were found at Great Salt Plains helped train soldiers.
CHEROKEE — Glass chemical vials discovered at Great Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge last weekend are from now-obsolete kits the U.S. military used to train soldiers in identifying chemical weapons, an Army spokesman said Saturday.
A 20-member team from the U.S. Army 's 22nd Chemical Battalion in Maryland arrived at the refuge's public selenite crystal-digging area Friday and began cleaning up the site Satur...
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