US military guns keep vanishing, some used in street crimes

[Deplorable Me]

US military guns keep vanishing, some used in street crimes

Pulling a pistol from his waistband, the young man spun his human shield toward police.

www.ajc.com

Maybe some of the elite politicians should enlist and solve this problem.

 

[Podmonkey]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the government was surreptitiously arming radical left movements.

 

[Cavalry]

I lost a M2 once in training. It was on the roof of a humvee that was swept away in a flash flood. The whole post was locked down for about 8 hours until they found it a couple miles downstream. Ahhh...the good old days.

 

[Podmonkey]

I lost a M2 once in training. It was on the roof of a humvee that was swept away in a flash flood. The whole post was locked down for about 8 hours until they found it a couple miles downstream. Ahhh...the good old days.

I was in a month long field exercise on the
Ft Sill training grounds. We'd be in the field for the week, roll back to the motor pool Friday afternoon to have the weekend off and head back to the training areas early Monday morning. It was pretty nice. On the Friday of the final week we were policing up all our stuff, tearing down and whatnot when one of the section chiefs reported a missing PLGR:

(Prolly a museum piece these days)
Couldn't find it anywhere. We spent all weekend in the field looking all over for it.
Then in the wee hours of Monday morning this sargeant, E5 type, has an epiphany and gets in his track:

Backs it up a few feet and there is the smashed remains of the missing PLGR. And since it was Moday we just had to stay out. That sargeant was not a popular guy that week.
Oh well, shit happens.

 

[dsdmmat]

I think I remember back in 2011 a warehouse in Kuwait had 16K M4s stolen out of it.

 

[1075tech]

Where can I get one of these weapons of war. All of mine are nearing 100 years old. Time to upgrade

 

[spat]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the government was surreptitiously arming radical left movements.

Arming, yes.

Training, probably not in anything worthwhile.

Recipe for disaster ? Absolutely.

 

[Acer-m14]

 

[Cavalry]

On the Friday of the final week we were policing up all our stuff, tearing down and whatnot when one of the section chiefs reported a missing PLGR:

(Prolly a museum piece these days)

Ha! Certainly vintage. The good old days before they opened up the GPS accuracy restrictions. We had tan pluggers, never saw a green one. We liberated some vehicle external antennas, velcro'd to our kevlars so you could keep the plugger in your day pack and still get a signal while out causing mayhem.

 

[repete]

Ha! Certainly vintage. The good old days before they opened up the GPS accuracy restrictions. We had tan pluggers, never saw a green one. We liberated some vehicle external antennas, velcro'd to our kevlars so you could keep the plugger in your day pack and still get a signal while out causing mayhem.

Vintage?? Looks like new tech to this ol man. When I was in we used a compass and FADAC and the FO drove a Jeep!
I stopped at Ft. Sill a few years back while on vacation and visited the post museum, inside I saw a FADAC set on display. Talk about feeling your age!