14,000 rounds of ammo missing at Bragg
The Fayetteville Observer reports that several thousand rounds of 5.56mm ammunition is unaccounted for from the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82d Airborne Division. I think that’s the “Devils in Baggy Pants”. Well, when I was there, the 1st Brigade was the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
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 82nd Airborne Division and military police were taking the situation seriously, Ford said.
If they were locked down for a few hours, they got off lucky. I remember being locked down for days because a grenade was unaccounted for. 14,000 rounds of ammunition is pretty hard to hide.
Hey, where was the Hillbilly Hunt Club Tuesday night?
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Don’t bother me now, Lilyea, I’ll lose count! And it’s not 14,000; more like 13,659 (I think the middle man is holding out on us).
This may just be my experience, but I’ve never seen a unit lock-down produce the desired results. Everybody’s pissed off, the items is never found [or found in the arms room after all] and the CoC releases the unit.
Someone s supply dude hasnt been doing their job. Probably had the lot numbers and everything else all changed on the boxes and its just sitting in front of them. Thats something like 7-8 boxes, each box has 2K rounds in it if I m not mistaken. So those boxes shouldn t be hard to find.
Just find the guy with the M-4 whose barrel has melted down.
Are you kidding me? All those years of turning in every scrap of brass and dunnage to be counted after running a range.. … I suspect somebody miss counted. Years ago, we had an engineer company go sign out a case of TNT or whatever… there were 50 sticks in a case- 50 pounds. However, when the got the case to the range, there were only 48 sticks.
Freak out time. lock down…searach…panic. Then somedumbass looked at the paper work and realized the case had been partly used and they had only signed for 48 sticks. Well, that was Army National Guard…we expect that kind of stuff. “One weekend a month…with retards” I don’t expect a high speed low drag army unit to screw up.
14,000 rounds. Where’s the truck and trailer carrying all of it?
The Tonka truck and trailer, right?
I’ve seen bigger piles of .223 on sale at Kittery Trading Post at $400 per caseload of 1000.
News has two soldiers detained in the case. More details to follow.
840 per can
1680 per case
8 cases missing 13,440 rds
want to bet the S-4 is thinking the Denny’s job offer isnt so bad about now?
@#2 -Unit lockdown never produced results? Bull effing sheet! I can count numerous times how the missing item showed up ( anonymous phone call and the .45 found under the Gamma Goat, the M-16 taken apart and taped to the ceiling in the attic in the apartment etc.). Just the fucking threat of a unit lock-down made men quiver. Maybe because they were real lock-downs. The barbed wire strung around the company was an eye opener, and made honest men more honest and thieves think twice. Maybe the Army was meaner back in the day?