Army unit is missing a .50 cal MG

apparently it’s the housing/receiver and someone was spotted throwing it in a dumpster?

That begs the question if you saw the dude throw it away…RETRIEVE IT!!

Everyone in the brigade got called in for hands across America just before a 96hr. Talk about pissed off. They’d need to sequester the afore mentioned soldier to keep them safe
 
11B CIB said:
apparently it’s the housing/receiver and someone was spotted throwing it in a dumpster?

That begs the question if you saw the dude throw it away…RETRIEVE IT!!

Everyone in the brigade got called in for hands across America just before a 96hr. Talk about pissed off. They’d need to sequester the afore mentioned soldier to keep them safe
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Hell yes. We were about to go on a 72 libo that got cancelled because something not nearly as important got missing. There was almost a mutiny. We found it after a day and then liberty started, but still.
 
Not trying to be a smart ass (well, maybe just a little) but with the army of "today" I could totally see some 'soldier' just tossing a stripped receiver thinking it was a useless hunk of metal if it wasn't with a substantial pile of parts but instead sitting on a table top by itself after being cleaned.

I mean, not going to blame the current emo, basement dwelling, LGBTBBQ, purple hair brigade but you wonder how many have actually seen a gun before, much less a .50 MG.

The picture in that article, that's a strange setup. What's going on there with those rods bolted to the receiver?
 
LesBaer45 said:
Not trying to be a smart ass (well, maybe just a little) but with the army of "today" I could totally see some 'soldier' just tossing a stripped receiver thinking it was a useless hunk of metal if it wasn't with a substantial pile of parts but instead sitting on a table top by itself after being cleaned.

I mean, not going to blame the current emo, basement dwelling, LGBTBBQ, purple hair brigade but you wonder how many have actually seen a gun before, much less a .50 MG.

The picture in that article, that's a strange setup. What's going on there with those rods bolted to the receiver?
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That’s a blank adapter for the .50 BMG
 
Yup, I was responsible for one of those wonderful double arm interval searches. I was on my first FTX as a private and got injured. My unit transported me to the medac with all my gear. They had sense enough to secure my weapon but not my gas mask. Back in those days a gas mask was a sensitive item.
I’m sure the whole battalion was praying for my quick recovery.🙄
 
I remember sitting on the tarmac at Tyndall AFB, baking in the sun, waiting to board a C141 for 4+ hours. The count for returned mosquito net was off by ONE, and we all had to unload our seabags over and over while the Gunny and !st Sgt checked everybody's gear......absurd. By the time we got on the plane we were soaked, then had to sit on that bird for 6(?) hours or so back to the States.

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Dan0311 said:
I remember sitting on the tarmac at Tyndall AFB, baking in the sun, waiting to board a C141 for 4+ hours. The count for returned mosquito net was off by ONE, and we all had to unload our seabags over and over while the Gunny and !st Sgt checked everybody's gear......absurd. By the time we got on the plane we were soaked, then had to sit on that bird for 6(?) hours or so back to the States.

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When I was a corpsman and at the reserve unit in Raleigh, I went to Butner as med support with the Marine option ROTC students from the three area universities (NCSU, Duke, and UNC). The ROTC staff and some of the Marine reserve I&I crew were the cadre and instructors for a bunch of topics. The afternoon of the last day there was a miscount of compasses, so they stayed in formation and recounted, and recounted, and recounted. One of the I&I staff said, "their monkeys, their circus. You wanna go back?" I said, "hell yeah" so we called the reserve center and sent someone out to get us. That was about 1600 if I recall correctly. They didn't roll in on the busses until 0500 Monday morning, and finally having found that last compass, which had found its way into someone's kit. I followed up that week, and was told they stood in formation recounting and going through everyone's gear until about 0330..no chow, no sitting, no talking....
 
Not as shocking as the armor round during training at Ft Sill leaving the base land. Wrong charge. My son was on the base at the time and the Army was very nervous. With 17 to 22 year olds crazy stuff always happens. Less than civilians though.
 
I always laugh at the difference between peacetime and wartime accountability:

At Camp Swampy, peacetime: stand in formation for hours looking for that lost lensatic compass.

At COP Killer, Iraq, wartime: Hey, you lost a billion dollar widget? No prob, here, take two.
 
BlackGun said:
Not as shocking as the armor round during training at Ft Sill leaving the base land. Wrong charge. My son was on the base at the time and the Army was very nervous. With 17 to 22 year olds crazy stuff always happens. Less than civilians though.
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That was probably 2/2 FA & they have an illustrious track record for that. My mortar platoon was on a shoot when 2/2 dropped that artillery round on a formation of basic trainees in ‘89 or ‘90. Glad I was on CQ, ‘cos they spent an extra week in the woods, while the safety team from Rucker came up & went through everybody’s stuff.
 
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Chuckman said:
I always laugh at the difference between peacetime and wartime accountability:

At Camp Swampy, peacetime: stand in formation for hours looking for that lost lensatic compass.

At COP Killer, Iraq, wartime: Hey, you lost a billion dollar widget? No prob, here, take two.
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Had a guy lose a . 9mm in Iraq. If I remember correctly he placed it on the hood of the HUMMV while getting his gear on to head out of the gate, and it was left there.
 
Not long before I PCS'd from Germany on my initial enlistment, we were on at Hohenfels when someone's 1911A1 came up missing. He apparently left it on his tank and went to the woods to take a dump, came back and it was gone. The whole company spent a couple of days searching, then those of us lucky enough to be other platoons left on the scheduled departure date while the platoon with the missing pistol stayed. The pistol wasn't found, although the suspected thief got his butt kicked before being moved to a different unit. A couple of years later at Ft. Riley, I ran into one of my friends and he said they finally found the pistol stashed in the hull of one of the tanks, and it was rusted to pretty much a solid block.
 
An AK was lost down my way during Robin Sage several years ago. I don’t know if it was ever recovered. There were reward posters everywhere for a couple of years.
 
MCQUADE said:
An AK was lost down my way during Robin Sage several years ago. I don’t know if it was ever recovered. There were reward posters everywhere for a couple of years.
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It was recovered somewhat recently. Some guy found it in the woods and kept it. His girlfriend evidently had enough of his shit, broke up with him and turned him in for having it. He's got 10 years or so to think about it all.
 
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It was recovered somewhat recently. Some guy found it in the woods and kept it. His girlfriend evidently had enough of his shit, broke up with him and turned him in for having it. He's got 10 years or so to think about it
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I’ve known a few people , more than you’d think reasonable, go to jail on NFA charges. All on MG charges although SBR and DD thrown in on some. My crowd of friends used to be pretty sketchy. 1-3 years first offense is typical. I always see 10 years thrown around and while that’s the max it hardly ever happens. And yeah, anyone with contraband stuff who thinks they’re safe because they don’t take it out except to shoot on their land isn’t taking into account pissed off girlfriends/wives and lousy kids. They’ll rat you out in a New York second. Ive seen it happen.

I was thinking about it the other day. Of the folks that Ive known for sure they had contraband machine guns vs the ones who went to jail for it its around 50%. Not good odds. I was out shooting with a friend way out out in the mddle of nowhere timber country in the Northwest. We had probably put 2000 rounds through his NHM91 drum fed go fast 3rd pin AK . We were on the banks of a river and lo and behold here come the entire sheriffs dept lights a blazin'. The thing was they were on the other side of the river and the bridge was about 15 miles downriver. By the time they got to our location we were long gone. A year later his girlfriend or one of his ex wives , that guy always got the best looking chicks but couldn't hold onto them he was such an ass, ratted him out , the cops raided his place and he hit the road fast. That was 20+ years ago and he's still living in Thailand running a burger joint.
 
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I worked aircraft maintenance, come with a missing tool. All hands on flight line and in the hangers looking for the lost tool, I helped search for over 12 hours once. All the aircraft are grounded, no flying.
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That's a different reason. All aircraft maintenance people in the military are trained for 100% accountability for each and every tool for legitimate safety reasons.
 
Just to keep this thread going, I was recently setting up a holiday event for a leg unit. One of the members of the color guard left an M4 unattended for app 20-30 minutes. Back in my day, low crawling the length of Longstreet would have been the appropriate cure for that oversight.
 
We were on a convoy in Germany for REFORGER in the mid-eighties. I was in the rear with my wrecker and contact team. We got a truck off the side of the road and proceeded to catch up with the main body.
The police pulled the entire convoy over. They returned an M16 to our commander. It was on top of the contact truck when we left the side of the road. Why? Who knows. It fell off onto the autobahn.
The 1st sergeant made a weapon out of wood. He issued it to the sad soldier.
Soldier in question got to carry an msticksteen around for a long time after we got back to our unit in the rear. The verbal abuse had to scar the guy for life.
 
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