which one of you pranksters took it? Ammo missing from Ft Bragg

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Loading up for the next car shoot? 14K rounds is probably what the average member has in his home....

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/09/09/1121716?sac=Local

Fort Bragg MPs investigate loss of 14,000 rounds of ammo

Military police are investigating the disappearance of nearly 14,000 rounds of ammunition from Fort Bragg, according to a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division.

Staff Sgt. Joshua Ford said the ammunition went missing from the division's 1st Brigade Combat Team.

Ford said the ammunition is believed to have been taken overnight on Tuesday.

The 1st Brigade Combat Team was placed on lockdown for a few hours Wednesday night while officials searched for the ammunition, Ford said.

The missing ammunition can be used in an M4 or M16 assault rifle, he said.
 
The post on Craigslist said they were giving it away! Are you telling me someone posted something on Craigslist that wasn't true?!?
 
Probably some young buck private, not meaning any harm, took it for home use.

Remember on MASH, Radar O'Reily tried to mail pieces of a military jeep home after he took it apart? Thinking that he'd put it together after he returned home?
 
WOW.

i'm guessing the ASP guards are in deep shit. all the ammo on military bases (at least Army ones) are generally stored at an Ammunition Supply Point (ASP). it is guarded 24/7 by LIVE people and periodic checks are conducted (i think it was every 3 or 4 hours). you have to write your initials and the time you checked it.

there are exceptions like drawing ammo the night before conducting a range and it is stored in the arms room. somebody screwed up and people will fry. [thinking]

firearms, ammo, narcotics and classified / sensitive items are one thing the Army doesn't play with.
 
At least they didn't over react...

Bullets from copter still missing

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — A search party looking for two errant bullets, part of a box that fell from a U.S. Navy helicopter July 19, ended the eighth day of the search without the bullets.

Jon Nylander, spokesman for Commander, Naval Forces Japan, said the searchers, about 20 people each day often deployed in two shifts, had gone over the area thoroughly. The search for the two remaining bullets — 198 were recovered — probably will be called off within the next few days, Nylander said.

“There are two left but the odds are fairly slim of finding them,” he said. “They had teams out over the weekend and every day since they started looking for them Monday.”

The box of 7.62 mm machine-gun bullets fell around 7:40 a.m. July 19 from an H-60 helicopter on its way from Atsugi Naval Air Facility to guard the USS Kitty Hawk as it made its way to sea. An investigation into how the box fell is continuing. Nylander said he had no information on when it would be complete and the information made public.

The ammo box and most of the bullets were found within a few hours in two spots in a car park in an area of Yokohama. No one was injured and no property damage was reported.

http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific-briefs-yokota-servicemember-sentenced-1.22236
 
LoginName:2027845 said:
At least they didn't over react...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — A search party looking for two errant bullets, part of a box that fell from a U.S. Navy helicopter July 19, ended the eighth day of the search without the bullets.

Bullets?
 
I wonder how much money the government will spend trying to find out where $4200 worth of ammo went. I bet it's a hell of a lot more than $4200. [laugh]

-Mike
 
I wonder how much money the government will spend trying to find out where $4200 worth of ammo went. I bet it's a hell of a lot more than $4200. [laugh]

-Mike

Look at how much money they spent trying to find "2 bullets" - that should give you some idea.
 
I wonder how much money the government will spend trying to find out where $4200 worth of ammo went. I bet it's a hell of a lot more than $4200. [laugh]

-Mike

I'm sure they spent well in excess of that the first day in gasoline alone.
 
Ask any Marine about the "bush monster" and he'll tell you how Marines have been acquiring free ammo for a long time now.... these guys just got greedy and called attention to themselves
 
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