and other islands...

"Navy lands on the east became the Inner Range of the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility (AFWTF). This was divided into the Eastern Maneuver Area (EMA), the Surface Impact Range (SIA) and the Live Impact Area (LIA).

The EMA was used for such activities as a small arms range, practice minefields, electronic warfare and mock amphibious assaults.

The SIA was used for practice shelling from ground artillery positions and from warships offshore

The LIA was for the target for the really big stuff, bombs dropped from jet aircraft, missiles fired from ships planes and for the testing of an assortment of both conventional and non conventional weapons. Non conventional usually refers to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Non conventional weapons tested on Vieques that the public kows about include depleted uranium artillery shells, Agent Orange, napalm, chaff (an aluminum coated fiberglass dust that serves to form a cloud impenetrable to radar) and in 1966, a "test bomb with nuclear characteristics" that was meant to be dropped on Vieques, but accidentally was dropped in the sea between St. Thomas and Vieques. (The bomb was recovered at great expense by a crack team of divers aided by dolphins from the Navy's then super secret animal research laboratory.

In addition to the land areas on Vieques, the surrounding waters, which the navy called the "Outer Range," were used for an assortment of bombing, missile and artillery exercises."