Danger UXB!

Actually UXB or Unexploded Bomb is misnomer because in this case this 500lb bomb casing is a dummy filled with concrete. One of the new radio sites at work is located in the Chocolate Mountains in the south east of Riverside County, close to the Arizona border. To get to the site you have to drive along one of the first stagecoach trails into Southern California known as the Bradshaw Trail. To the south of the trail is the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, used by the Navy and Marines for aerial bombing practice. My guess would be that these 500lb dummies were part of that practice. These ones were sitting right next to the Bradshaw Trail and in some cases were split open from their ground impact.