"California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle"

[signal4l]

Some of Chicagos finest residents had a party at a hotel room. Security guard tells them he is calling police due to loud music, weed smoking,etc. They exit room and leave key inside.

Security guard then calls to report they are trying to break down door to get back inside.

Seems the young men left a loaded TAVOR inside.

[DoubleW]

Some young Marine's career is over !

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.

[mack7.62]

I'd much rather stumble across a lost M27 than a M110, just say'n

[Pacific5th]

I’d hate to be in that unit. I had a set of NVG’s checked out to me but everyone got to use them on fire watch. Well my Corporal leaves them in another Humvee after using them. We go to leave the pause that night and I ask where he put my NVG’s as I was driving. All of the sudden it’s my fault and I’m ****ed and so on. Luckily I was able to walk the 150 feet and get them where he left them. Shit like that pissed me off. I had to sign for them but of coarse since they didn’t have enough we had to share them and if anything happened you better believe it would have been my ass.

[davidjinks]

Just out of curiosity, why is this a big deal? Like controlled items have never been “lost” before.

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.

At Lewis we had a “group” doing a night jump and someone’s weapon got ripped off their rig, never found.

Hell, when I got stationed at Polk some Navy type dudes decided to “leave” all their ammo they didn’t use in a ditch and redeploy back home. Nothing happened except we blew it all up.

[ST911]

Happens a lot more than ever publicly reported.
Many of these involve intentional and criminal aspects similarly unreported.
COs and troops getting burnt doesn't happen as much as believed.

[davidjinks]

Come to think of it…..I remember seeing 1 blotter report back in 97(ish) about a soldier stealing motorpool tools. I can’t remember any other time it’s really been “reported”. Unless you include 100% lock downs and a full room inspection with TA-50 layout.

Happens a lot more than ever publicly reported.
Many of these involve intentional and criminal aspects similarly unreported.
COs and troops getting burnt doesn't happen as much as believed.

[SteyrAUG]

Just out of curiosity, why is this a big deal? Like controlled items have never been “lost” before.

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.

At Lewis we had a “group” doing a night jump and someone’s weapon got ripped off their rig, never found.

Hell, when I got stationed at Polk some Navy type dudes decided to “leave” all their ammo they didn’t use in a ditch and redeploy back home. Nothing happened except we blew it all up.

Was probably 20 years ago but I remember Japanese defense forces spending days searching fields because several rounds of LIVE 7.62 fell out of a helo.

[davidjinks]

That sucks!

End of FTX and every Joe was ditching any and all ammo they could.

At least that’s what I heard happened……..

Was probably 20 years ago but I remember Japanese defense forces spending days searching fields because several rounds of LIVE 7.62 fell out of a helo.

[ABNAK]

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".