Ammo Missing From Fort Bragg

[Agloco]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/11/ammo-missing_n_957507.html


News reports that thousands of rounds of ammunition have gone missing from Fort Bragg Army Base in North Carolina.

Officials at the base suspect the rounds disappeared from the base Tuesday night.

14000 rounds to be exact.......

:wow

[SnakeBoy]

Doesn't seem like that much to me. I have friends who have alot more than that stockpiled.

[mouse]

Its very rare any news leaks out of Bragg. I remember at one solderer a week would die from chute malfunction and it never left the base.

[boutons_deux]

"I have friends who have alot more than that stockpiled."

fools and their money are soon parted

[DMC]

Yes, 14K rounds isn't a great deal of ammo. It's 14 boxes. It would fit under your bed most likely.

We've shot twice that in one afternoon. When you can dump 650+ rounds per minute, it doesn't take long to go through a few boxes.

[jacobdrj]

Yes, 14K rounds isn't a great deal of ammo. It's 14 boxes. It would fit under your bed most likely.

We've shot twice that in one afternoon. When you can dump 650+ rounds per minute, it doesn't take long to go through a few boxes.

My dad was stationed in Fort Carson in Colorado back in the late 70's. Packages of C4 and other munitions would go missing all the time, and was considered commonplace. Lots of guys liked taking the stuff home to 'play with', and stockpile for when the Commies invaded...

If anything, I am impressed that this made it out to the medial. There is a systematic disregard for property in the armed forces that has been prevalent for a long time. And it is very costly.

[boutons_deux]

yep, an old story, parodied in WWII era by Catch-22's Milo Mindbender (Jon Voight)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Minderbinder

[Wild Cobra]

I saw that story when it broke.

Yawn....

Just 223 rounds. If it was something uncommon, I might be concerned.

[Nbadan]

14,000 bullets under Obama...two nuclear-armed warheads under Bush...who's counting? Right?

[DarrinS]

14,000 bullets under Obama...two nuclear-armed warheads under Bush...who's counting? Right?

You are.

[Nbadan]

Not anyone working for the MIC under Dubya......that's for sure...