Did you get an AT-4 when you left the military?

| December 13, 2015

AT-4

In Tacoma, Washington, a man claims that the SWAT Team raid on his house took his going-away present from him from when he was booted from the Army. It was an AT-4 anti-armor rocket. He kept it on the roof of his home out of reach of his teenage son who found the thing and posted a picture of it on social media.

“When I was leaving for work and the SWAT team pulled up behind me…I didn’t know what was going on. They said you have to evacuate,” said neighbor Leslie Hunt.

When the SWAT team told Hunt which house they were targeting, it was too close for comfort: the blue house on the corner, where an anti-tank projectile perched on the roof.

“Very crazy, that’s what I was thinking. This is crazy. Who the heck does that?” she said.

Yeah, well, the criminal’s girlfriend said that he was a nice guy, so you know, it’s all cool. He told the judge that he thought it was inert – that’s why he put it on the roof, I suppose. There’s a reason that we throw people out of the Army. The SWAT team detonated his going-away present and the judge let him out on bail.

Thanks to C.B. for the link.

Category: Dumbass Bullshit

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AJ

Did they blow it in place? That would’ve been great.

Hondo

Per this report, the idiot’s name was Tracy Worwood. He also apparently received an OTH discharge.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/police-assisting-atf-possible-explosive-device-tac/npgF6/

According to his LinkedIn profile, he was in the Army for a bit over 10 years and was discharged in 2005.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-worwood-42684a28

I’m thinking he had to step on ‘ol Ralph the One-Eyed Trouser Trout pretty damn hard to get thrown out about then.

Skippy

your right on the last Hondo in 05-09 as long as you could breathe it was a act of God to get a OTH discharge

Anon

His command must’ve loved him to give him a getting the boot gift

Peter the Bubblehead

Did you think maybe they were hoping he wouldn’t get home in one piece with his going away gift?

Just An Old Dog

It would be a gift to society as well.

Hack Stone

There were a few individuals that Iwould have liked to hand an explosive device to as they went out the door.

B Woodman

. . . . with the pin pulled.

Claw

I thought my retirement packet from 24 years ago felt a bit overweight.

Wait for a minute. I’ll go drag it out of the briefcase in the closet and check it.

OK, I’m back. Nope, no AT-4 rounds as a going away present. Just a few extra black government ink pens (you know we supply dudes always stole those) and a box of staples.

Dumbass.

A Proud Infidel®™

A heavy-duty dickstepper gets an AT4 as a going away present, and all I got was an ACM and a DD214!

thebesig

Honest mistake? BWAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA! More like her trying to rationalize another one of her poor judgements with mate selection. Some key things pop up…

* Not honorably discharged…

* Teenage son visiting…

* Gets arrested for putting what he “thought” was an “inert” round on his roof…

I wouldn’t be surprised if what unifies these three things is, what the judge stated, poor judgement. That wasn’t his first poor judgement, but a pattern of poor judgment that got him removed from the military in disgrace, got him divorced, and got him arrested.

His son takes a picture of it and posts it… ROTLMFAO! The apple didn’t fall far from the tree on this one. 🙄 This is an example where two wrongs resulted in a right. :mrgreen:

I wonder if the person that reported it happened to be someone that wanted revenge on the ‘tard? :mrgreen:

OWB

Nope, didn’t get one of those or any other
“inert” armament as a consolation prize either. But then, mine was both honorable service and an honorable retirement, with one of those pesky honorable discharge thingies. No need for search warrants either in the work place or home environments. Only stuff in the desk were issued items plus a few snacks, and a personal radio over in the corner.

Ex-Garbage Gun Shooter

Dang. I served on a Boomer. Now I’m upset because I wasn’t given a Polaris A3 when I got out. I’m not sure I could have got it on the roof however one of those puppies would look great out front on the lawn.

Man battle stations missile!

Peter the Bubblehead

I’m wondering where the TLAM I wanted is, but then again I only got an Honorable discharge.

Silentium Est Aureum

Same here: No CWIS, no Harpoons, no nada. Just a NAM and a 214. What’s this world coming to?

JimV

I received lots of metal implants in my body as well as a TBI to make life interesting. No rockets however.

Skippy

right there with you JimV, I got a few parting gifts being retired from the Army and they wouldn’t take them back Lol…

Green Thumb

I received an Anti-Typical Level 4(AT-4) rating.

Not sure what that means but I do like to talk to myself when looking in the mirror.

Gives me someone to talk to.

clamsgotlegs

It’s an Army weathervane/lightning rod.

But the rooster was too chicken to stand on a live round.

Marine_7002

But hey, that would be a good way to turn chicken shit into chicken salad. One BOOM, and there you go!

Bill M

And cook it at the same time.

nousdefions

What happened to “See Something, STFU”. Wasn’t this racial profiling?

Nevermind, religion of pieces™ not involved

nbcguy54ACTUAL

At the end of the Johnston Island project (CML weapon demil), they presented us with inert 155 fuzes mounted on plaques with our names and dates of service. As we had already shipped all of our personal junk home, the plaques had to be packed in our bags. Since this was after 9/11, I can only wonder what the TSA x-ray guys at the Honolulu airport were thinking as our bags came through and got checked for connecting flights…

Dave Hardin

Nothing ever happened on Johnston, I am sure you are mistaken. It has always been a quiet little resort.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

It actually was quite the resort for us contractor types. Ocean view condos on a golf course, free chow and transportation, great pay and damn good people. The price of admission was the willingness to live and work 800+ miles from anything and spend 72 hrs a week cooking chemical agent.
I do miss the place.

Dave Hardin

I have a friend that stopped there two years ago. They were sailing and sent me a few pics, there is nothing there now, and I mean NOTHING. The incinerators, buildings, everything is gone down to the last block. The only thing left there is the landing strip. Like I said, nothing ever happened there, if there even is a there.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

The only thing left is the shell of the JOC. It’s a “hurricane proof” structure left in case a wayward ship crew needed it. A group of college kids lives in tents out there figuring out how to kill Crazy Ants.
I was there during the beginning of the demil plant demo. Kinda bittersweet watching the claw take out the control room and the torches take apart the stack. Got to watch part of the Pine Bluff demil plant go down too. Hope I’m not starting a trend. No one will hire me then…

Luddite4change

I want to know the story on why a dangerous serial numbered weapon was missing from JBLM and no one seems to have known about it.

Something doesn’t add up here. Where is ATF and EOD in this story?

Remember, these are the same departments that threw an O5 in jail for threatening his commander, then conducted an investigation only to find the story was fabricated by a scorned girlfriend.

Thunderstixx

Makes me wish I would have gotten out with something other than a few P-38’s…

Wesley Wilson AKA Enigma4you

I was navy, we had a choice of surplus 16 inch shells or a sound powered phone

Slick Goodlin

Just curious, I was an Infantryman but the AT-4 was after my service.
So, first you steal a supposedly secured, lot controlled AT-4 weapon.
Then? Pop an end off the tube and slide the rocket out?
Since it’s preloaded at the factory and designed to be carried isn’t it kind of well secured in the tube?
I suppose it has a spin up fuse so the rocket is kind of safe.
If true you would have to be a combination of bold/stupid/crazy.

Skippy

I have to fess-up I have a 20MM shell but not the round it was given to be from a few CAV brothers while at NTC in California. the Sabot shell stayed put because of the du in the round I also have a 125 MM tank shell not the round how in the F&$@ do you get a AT round is beyond me or why you would want one is Nutz

19D2OR4 - Smitty

I think you moved the 5 to the wrong number Skippy.

Cav uses a 25mm (at least since we switched to the Bradley)

Tankers use the 120mm. Russia and China have a 125mm.

19D2OR4 - Smitty

They also wouldn’t have been firing the DU sabot at NTC. Just the training Sabot. Just sayin

skippy

right again I just wanted to be safe our 19 Kilos after losing the tanks were alway talking up a storm about there Bradley’s Lol… and on the number 5 I switch them out my tablet seems to be having issues again and it’s crashing up a storm

skippy

I’m have that spell check issue with my I-pad again

Jarhead

Damn! Y’all are making me feel like really old school. We in the Corps while in RVN used 90 MM tank shells. Then again, we were using the hand-me-downs from the Army. That being the M 48 A 3 tanks. As anti social as I am in my older years, there’s nothing I’d love more than to have sitting in our front yard right at the gate than an old tank from those days. Serious, ABSOLUTELY! Took notice from a DOD auction not long ago, but could not swing $125 K for pure mental orgasm.

skippy

well Lol.. in ren years We’ll have this conversation with someone and we will be swer we are old or old school Lol… 🙂
I can’t wait 🙂

skippy

spell check ten and not ren…. and swearing we are old Lol…

charles w

All I got was a coffee cup. It’s heavy so I would hurt if it hit you.

charles w

It would hurt…

EODJay

There is a lot wrong and a lot missing from this article and I’ll bet with the whole scenario. First and foremost, it is completely legal to own inert ordnance. There is a very large subculture of ordnance collectors. It can be purchased completely above board in a variety of places. Second, why in the hell was SWAT called to handle a piece of military ordnance? They know dick shit about it. I guarantee they know fuck all about how a HEAT round should be counter charged to keep the jet from forming.

Although the guy sounds like a turd, the whole thing is fishy.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

Ya mean you shouldn’t blow up an AT round inside of a 3/5″ thick metal box???

Just An Old Dog

If it was inert pretty sure They wouldnt have been able to blow it up, and it would have been stamped inert.
My guess is that the projo was a dud picked up on the range and the dude took it home.

EODJay

That’s a very common misconception. Not all inert ordnance is stamped inert. There is no way to know the difference unless you are a trained EOD Tech. HDS grads (Police Bomb Squads) are NOT EOD Techs. They are not trained on military ordnance. Now, as far as them blowing it up. They can and will do it even if they have no idea of what they are doing. I’ve dealt with the fallout of this more than you would believe.

Old Dog, it very well could have been a dud taken from a range. In that case, it is a very dumb move to touch it much less remove it. However, if the picture above is the actual item, I do not believe it to be a fired AT-4. I’ve seen many a dud AT-4 and they show many more signs of being fired than the above item.

Again, something doesn’t smell right.

10thMountainMan

Well, I’m not an EOD tech, but I do play a lot of video games.

I also thought it looked too clean to have been picked up from a range. No idea how he got it from the weapon though.

Anyway, tell us some cool EOD stories about civilians detonating HEAT rounds!

PFM

Was rebuilding some berms at Graf, got the usual mandatory safety brief – “decades of live fire, stuff all over the place yadda, yadda – DO NOT PICK UP OR TOUCH ANYTHING!!!” – took all of five minutes for PV2 Snuffy to pick up an old Dragon motor…I can see Dingleberry picking up a dud AT-4. 🙂

Just An Old Dog

I think the dumbest thing I did was take home a 105mm arty Illum round that had been expended home. It is perfectly safe as it has no explosives in it once the Illum flare with Chute is ejected from the back. The fuse on the tip has fired off its charge and is shattered from when the casing hit the ground. That thing is somewhere in the woods near my brothers place in Va now.

GDContractor

When I was a teenager in the late ’70s, I came home from the Army Navy store with a BLU-3 bomblet and a MK2 Grenade (both inert). My Dad freaked out and locked the grenade up. 30 years later, he passed away. I opened his safe, and got my grenade back. Karma has blessed me with 2 sons of my own now. It’s going to be a bumpy ride LOL.
//I was a good kid. My Dad just worried too much.