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 * Siekman, Mark W., David A. Anderson, and Allan S. Boyce. "Small-Arms Ammunition Production and Acquisition: Too Many Eggs in One Basket? ." //Army Sustainment// 42.5 (2010): 7. Web. 23 Aug. 2012. .
 * 1) The City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri has doubled its production of small-arms ammunition from 2003 to 2004.
 * 2) The main ingredient used in all small-arms ammunition propellants is nitrocellulose.
 * 3) Ninety-nine percent of all small-arms ammunition used in Afghanistan and Iraq contains nitrocellulose produced at the City Army Ammunition Plant.
 * 4) The primer in most cartridges is made from over 13 different chemicals that are mixed at the Lake City plant.
 * 5) Over 99 percent of all small-arms ammunition consumed by the Army is produced by the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant
 * 6) From 1999 to 2008, the 5.56mm was the most produced cartridge, having 7,219,000,000 produced in those nine years.
 * 7) The main ingredient used in all small arms ammunition propellants is nitrocellulose.
 * 8) Lake City cannot significantly increase its production of an ammunition type by refitting another ammunition type’s production line.
 * 9) From 1999 to 2008, 8,589,000,000 small arms rounds have been produced by the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri.
 * 10) The Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia is the sole producer of nitrocellulose for all propellants used throughout the Army’s ammunition industrial base.
 * 11) One component unique to machine gun ammunition is linkage pellets.
 * 12) A key commodity for the bullet is the steel penetrator for each cartridge type.
 * 13) All small-arms ammunition manufactured at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant receives primers from an on-site manufacturing facility.
 * 14) All 13 chemicals for primer mix are formulated by U.S.-based commercial companies, but 10 chemicals have origins outside of the U.S.
 * 15) The operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, classified in the force-sizing construct as two simultaneous major combat operations, changed the requirements for ammunition.