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Letterkenny Army Depot covers nearly 18,000 acres, primarily in Letterkenny Township and extending into Greene and Hamilton Townships. This borough is the nearest place to it, about five and a half miles off — arithmetically the right answer and descriptive of very little, because the reservation spans three townships and the borough holds a few hundred people.

It is the second 18,000-acre military reservation in this state; Fort Indiantown Gap, about 115 miles east, is the same size.

That reservation is also an employment base. About 3,600 people work there.

The work is unusual for a place this size. The depot holds tactical missile repair capabilities, working on Department of Defense missile systems including the Patriot and its ground support and radar equipment. That is a precision electronics and machining trade rather than a heavy-industrial one.

So the freight it generates is not quarry freight. It is components, tooling, containers and contractor plant, which is flatbed and van work rather than bulk hauling, moving through the Chambersburg ramp about 8.5 miles south and the Chamberburg yard about 8.8 miles south.

That depot is not a self-contained operation. It is one of nine sites in six states in an ordnance chain: Scranton forges the projectile bodies on 15.3 acres, Radford makes the propellant, Holston makes the explosive, Picatinny designs the systems on 6,400 acres, this depot repairs the missiles, Tobyhanna repairs the electronics, Indian Head and the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory make the rocket motors, and the Defense Distribution Depot Susquehanna moves the result.

Every one of those links came from a sentence in a secondary source rather than from a field, and none of the nine carries a marking that a search could find. So the chain is real and the dataset is silent about it.

Workload and throughput at this depot were not established, and nothing here should be read as a statement about how busy it is.

A truck working a depot contract does short trips inside a fence that runs to nearly 18,000 acres across Letterkenny Township and into Greene and Hamilton Townships, and then a highway run out. So it often shows light mileage against heavy hours. The country around it is farmed, so the rest of the local work is agricultural and the two fleets overlap more than people expect.

• Around Letterkenny Army Depot — about 3,600 people, and the second largest employer in Franklin County — contractor disposals are regular and we see them one truck at a time or several together.
• The hours are high but the miles are not.Expected on depot work, and on the 8.5 miles down to the Chambersburg ramp and back. We read hours as well as the odometer and it is not a mark against the truck.

A contractor who bought five trucks for a five-year job has five trucks the month after it finishes.

Beyond that the farm side — retirements, estates, and the truck parked since the last season it was needed. Franklin County is farmed country, and between the Chamberburg yard 8.8 miles south and the Chambersburg ramp 8.5 miles south they turn up steadily.