Fort Carson Soldier’s idea of taking a block of C4 home ‘blows up’ his future plans
Joshua King, an Army sergeant stationed at Fort Carson, opted for the “green to orange program” with his unauthorized possession of a block of C4. King, in the process of a divorce, did not factor in the fact that the home would be cleaned out and that someone would run into this C4. That someone turned out to be his wife. King’s wife mentioned that the “unauthorized acquisition” of the C4 came after her father gave them a retired explosives detection canine. King’s ex also said that King showed her pictures of the block of C4 that he took from Fort Carson.
From KRDO News:
Joshua King is charged with possession, use, or removal of explosive devices after his wife alleges she found a block of C4 explosive among his things. King is a sergeant in the 588th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson.
On Feb. 4, the regional explosives unit responded to a home in the 700 block of Sableglen Court after a woman called and said a Ft. Carson soldier took C4 off post back to his home.
Law enforcement said his wife told law enforcement she and Joshua were going through a divorce. She said she was cleaning out the home when she found the C4 in a small wooden dresser in the garage.
Special agents with the FBI and the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division responded to the home. Those agents say they saw and photographed the C4 which appeared to be in its original packaging.
His wife told investigators that he allegedly brought home the plastic explosive shortly after her father gave them a retired explosives detection canine. She said Joshua had told her not to tell anyone that he brought the C4 home from Ft. Carson. At the time, she said she didn’t realize exactly what C4 was.
Additional Reading:
Logerwell, M. (2025, March 17). Army sergeant charged with taking C4 explosive to his Colorado Springs home. KRDO. Link.
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Somebody got some ‘splainin’ to do. You’re not supposed to bring the serious putty home.
Bringing serious putty home is a serious offence. Sounds like a silly idea to me. Now…the really serious questions are…Where’s the caps and where’s the det cord? Asking for a fren’…that’s on The North Wall Over Watch… The coffee cans full of ball bearings were unavailable for comment.
It’s gotta be better than tannerite in the garden gnomes.
And waaaaay yonder better than Goex 2F…not that there’s any of that around Fire Base Magnolia.
The only putty is in this clown’s head.
He was going to tell them that it is just a really long burning candle without the blasting caps or det-cord!
Should have made it into a Bunny and no-one would be the wiser! “Ohh, don’t mind these wires Mister Gopher…they are doctors orders…” — Carl Spackler
Serious Putty Garden Gnome
I told my ex I used it to heat up coffee.
Putty bad idea for the Sgt. Wheres that putty Tat says Sylvester.
The stupid is strong in that one.
Yeah.
He looks fucking brilliant.
See my comment above! LOL
I’d ask why but I’m sure to be disappointed in the answer.
I mean, I understand WANTING to have so.e laying around, ” just in case”, the govt really frowns on 1. Competition, and 2. You stealing from them ( I guess that could fall under #1 as well).. In any case, it seems the former Sgt is about to find out just how much they dislike such things..
No mention as to whether he had any detonators or blasting caps?
Wouldn’t be much good without them.
I seriously doubt a blackpowder booster would do the job.
Geez. Maybe he was planning to use it to cook at home for emergency purposes.
If you’re getting divorced and you tell your ex-wife to be you have C-4 in the house. The ex to be is going to turn you in… dah!
And really do you want c-4 at home. How dumb can you be. I mean your not even supposed to pick up spent brass as a souvenir.
He could have legally bought Tannerite target kits.
Pro tip: tell the wife only things you would want repeated in Divorce Court. Her memory will be eidetic there. Only Judgement Day will include a more detailed and extensive listing of your sins.
Army type? C’mon man no Jarhead would DO such a stupid thing. Something tells me I’m going to take a verbal ass-whopping from all your R-ME Doggies. LOL
That’s some 24K dumb shit!
My company was at JRTC (long time ago), one of the guys wive was cleaning out the house as a divorce surprise and found his C4 collection in the lawn mower shed. She was extra happy and called all the LEOs agencies in the phone book, he was not very happy.
What’s wrong with having a little C4 around. It’s stabile and what if your food is cold? Handy stuff.
It would be really helpful for the George Floyd statue/bust
E-7 SFC, according to this article.
https://gazette.com/military/fort-carson/fort-carson-combat-engineer-arrested-after-police-found-an-explosive-in-his-former-home/article_42021b94-bd25-43d8-81e3-7b5b00bcc5b0.html
Soon to be E-IOU-1
16 years of service and the fuckface just DOGEd himself out of retirement, saving us a little loot.
Still safer than making your own….
It’s not like you can just run down to the local Agway and get what you need to take care of that damned beaver dam, anymore.
They don’t sell ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel? Sure, you need to give it a little push, unless you get the proportions “wrong.”
Way back in the 90s I was stationed at Hood and my unit was doing a squad live fire course. It was the classic “breach a mine wire obstacle, assault a trench/bunker complex, defend against a counter assault”. We had C4 and pickets to make bangalore torpedoes.
My squad was sitting around waiting for our turn on the day run when one of the other PSGs come walking by with a 2 ft long log of C4 covered in pine needles. He found it in the wood line, just surface laid, when he went to take a piss. He gave it to our demo guy and told him to pack it into our night run torpedo. Because all good soldiers know, you don’t turn any “live” munitions back in.
Well, our night run torpedo was now double the amount of C4 as it was supposed to be, all fat and wrapped up in hunna’ milenhour tape.
One hell of a boom on our night run. Guy in another squad told us he, no joke, fell off his cot because of how loud it was.
Never did find out who it was that thought they were going to snag a C4 log for themselves.
I had a company commander (enlisted engineer before he was a signal officer) tell a similar story about what some would call an excessive amount of C4 in a Bangalore, clearing a concertina obstacle. Said he had no idea you could bury chunks of concertina that deep into a tree.
yeah, when we blew it, everyone in the squad were staring into the darkness waiting for the boom, I wasn’t taking that chance and I had my face in the dirt.
When my reserve Combat Eng unit did a demo range one weekend, I was part of the SpendEx Sunday afternoon, because no turn in. I learned that the water table at Camp Atterbury is approx 5 feet down.
But a small pinch is great for heating up a canteen cup.
They have been talking about this idiot on X.
interesting back story here
Look, dude, I’m divorced myself.
If you really wanna blow your ex to tiny little bits you HAVE TO HIDE THE C4 OFF SITE!!!!
I’m just surprised the retired explosives detection doggie wasn’t getting excited and alerting everybody to this sooner.
In this case both of them (hubby and dependa) are really screwed. He is going to jail and have a dishonorable, she is going to lose that sweet govt child support and possible alimony as well as half of his retirement.
Sadly, not all dependas can think that far ahead. They only see the immediate gratification of hurting them.
Guy in my unit at Hood, his marriage was coming apart in slow motion and his wife finally decided to file a restraining order. She moved out of their tiny apartment and left him there with the two cat and he was served by the Sheriffs at the unit. So he has to set up an allotment to her, then the divorce pre game started. About 45-60 days later she claimed he violated the RO and he got locked up. First of the month rolled around and she called the company office wanting to know where “her” money was. I was standing there and listened to 1SG give it to her with that classic pissed off 1SG voice “YOU put CPL Woods in jail. That’s why YOU didn’t get YOUR money.” Then he slammed the phone down on her.
Don’t know if true or not but we were told EOD would blow in place any munitions they found instead of moving them whether it’s in your night stand or garage.
“At the time, she said she didn’t realize exactly what C4 was.”
Um…yea….sure.
Translation “please don’t charge me as an accessory for not reporting it at the time because somehow between then and now, when I stand to gain substantially from my soon-to-be-ex husband being incarcerated, I magically figured out what C-4 actually is, right before “finding” it.
Who wants to bet that she had just gotten some bad news from her lawyer about the report just before “finding” the explosives.
“Sorry Mrs. King, but you have a very good job and make significantly more money than your husband, so you’re going to have to pay him alimony…plus those retirement plans you’ve invested in are considered “community property” so he gets half of them.” Or something to that effect.
I guess he needed to heat his c-rats at home.