"California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle"

[DoubleW]

When I was in Panama, any grunt units ended up pulling all the brigade guard duty (you'd think it would be MP's but nooooo). The guard duty locations were on both the Pacific side (where we were stationed) as well as the Atlantic side. Laundries, ASP's, PX's after hours, logistics hubs, communication centers, etc. It rotated amongst the two Infantry BN's down there.

One time when one of the platoons in my company was on guard rotation on the Atlantic side, 55 miles from where we were based at, a .45 came up missing (yes I'm dating myself). The guard platoon was relieved of duty and sent back to the Pacific side. The entire company was locked down. All off-post personnel had to report to the barracks. We were marched to and from chow. IIRC it went on for about a week of this remedial shit. Mind you this was not just the platoon who was on guard mount 55 miles away, but the whole company.

They never found the weapon, at least not for quite some time. A good while after the guy they suspected of it PCS'd out of Panama they were doing a "Health and Welfare" inspection and found it in the ceiling tiles of our barracks. Apparently he must have gotten cold feet and just stashed it.

Yeah, the military frowns upon losing "sensitive items".

And dumb bullshit like this only further validates me sleeping snuggly in my DD-214 on a nightly basis.

[Averageman]

Some old Marine’s too! They’ll fry everyone up to the Battalion CO. Shit like that is why I got out. I was tired of being ****ed cause of others mistakes I had zero control over.

Well the guy who last the weapon is as responcible for that weapon as the Commander is to send correct sensitive items reports up the channel.
Skip that report or sending up a bogus one is where they get anyone above the Platoon Leader.
I didn't take it lighlty and set up my tank so that I could touch every sensitive item before reporting. A lot of people didn't and sometimes paid the price. I think we called it a "Green Report" the answer for all secure was "Green 2 Green.".
I know a guy who was working on his track tension right before we moved out. We are five minutes from pulling out and his loader puts the M-4 on the track and someone else closes the skirt. They gave a "Green 2 Green." and pulled out.
They found the weapon after it had been run over a couple of times.
He was screwed.

[SteyrAUG]

Meanwhile back around 1983, the Ft. Laudedale Armory lost something close to 100 M-16A1s, a few M203s and cases of grenades because guys left watching it had been slipping shit out the back door for months. Keep in mind this is near the height of the drug wars in Miami. Lots of it ended arming the various factions of the drug trade.

But I know a few "survivalist" types who bought some of it when word got out that it was available. There was even a Miami Vice episode "No Exit" that was loosely based upon this event, but unlike Miami Vice they didn't actually lose any Stinger missiles. They also didn't catch anyone involved as far as I know. But lots of freaked out South Florida LEOs were aware of the fact that it happened and this was decades before patrol carbines were a thing. Most were still rolling wheel guns and 870s.

[CMP]

I remember doing “hands across Korea” because some douchebag lost his PVS Charlies. That was a battalion movement and that shit bird was leading the group, low crawling. Never found them.

I remember Camp Howse getting locked down in '94 because an Engineer lost a bayonet.

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