Ordnance washes ashore on NC beach

I wondered where I left that thing.
 
A guy I work with bought a house that had been owned by a WWII vet and found some live mortar rounds. Nice guy but not the sharpest and couldn't help running his mouth. His dear mother forced him to call LEO for disposal-- EOD from Ft Bragg showed up and took care of them after the local guys freaked out.
 
I worked in Nevada near one of the test sites for aircraft bombs about 11 years ago. We were getting watershed data in the desert. If you came up on an unexploded bomb, you were supposed to take a picture of it and mark it on the map. One of my coworkers did find such a bomb and took a picture of it but still got yelled at by our boss.

The reason he got yelled at was because his foot was in the picture.:eek: He was practically standing on top of it. LOL.
 
When I was a kid,an Air Force brat, we were stationed at Langley,anyway they had a pool next to the bay at the beginning of the main runway and they would always do sea survival training in the bay, so we would leave the pool when we saw them parachuting into the water for training exercises and watch and wait, sure enough stuff would always wash ashore, anything from survival kits, to clothing,rafts,shark repellant, food canisters and anything else that came loose or was lost, one day we came across a harness and when we pulled it out from under the litter and rocks we found a holster with a small handgun and ammo clips, We were kids, had no idea what we found except that it was a gun...we took it home to my Dad who cleaned it and got it to work..he had that gun for years used to take us with our 22's shooting he would shoot the gun we found, someone stole that gun during a move to another base..too bad I would love to have that today..it was from 1957 I assume cuz thats the year we found it. Thanks for bringing back a good childhood memory .


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NCFubar said:
Drain the Pamlico Sound and you’d be surprised what you’d find ...
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I had heard that if you drain the Pamlico you could walk from the mainland to the outer banks on military equipment and old ordnance without touching the bottom of the sound.
 
Chuckman said:
I had heard that if you drain the Pamlico you could walk from the mainland to the outer banks on military equipment and old ordnance without touching the bottom of the sound.
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We drum fish right on the edge of the bombing range. With what I have seen/heard them drop I wouldn't be suprised.
 
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