Posted on 04/02/2021 6:27:18 PM PDT by PROCON
USMC. We locked down over a lost lensatic compass. Tritium you know.... nuclear threat.
Over a compass! That sucks!
When I was in Basic Training at Ft Leonard Wood an M16 went missing from another company. They closed the base down and tore it apart. They found it hidden in the ceiling of a mess hall. I don’t know if they ever determined who hid it there or what happened to the trainee whose weapon it was.
I had Army basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC in 1969. One day we were at a training site that was way out in the woods. We had to go inside a building for the training. We were instructed to leave our packs and M-16’s outside. After the training was over we came out to put our gear on and head back to our company site. However one of the weapons was missing. We looked all around the area but didn’t find it. Our drill sergeants were pissed. They knew that one of the instructors had taken it. So each squad had to leave two “volunteers” behind to watch the area overnight. And it was a cold night.
Early the next day we were back out there. We were able to search the area more thoroughly and eventually we found it. And the volunteers got the rest of the day off!
Don’t know if they figured out who took it.
Feinstein and Schumer are Satan’s Children.
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