and other conservatives, kill our cattle and family pets, and herd senior citizens into FEMA Death Camps.
Posted on 04/28/2014 1:40:58 PM PDT by PoloSec
“The only time that it make sense to destroy ammunition is when the enemy is about to overrun your position.”
They never taught that little tidbit in the USMC. Never once heard that one. They were more of the school of thought that one should be going cyclic, towards the bad guys.
And that the slacker destroying our own ammo should be up there shooting too.
ammunition stored properly should remain “viable” for decades’
He is an idea. Randomly pull a few rounds from each case and fire them off. If the operate as designed then the ammunition is good. Then instead of Homeland etc buying new ammo for their “target” practice they could use this ammo.
Oh sorry. That would make sense and there for not be something the Government would do......
Who is in charge?
The Pentagon political officers whose boss is the Kenyan SOB who wants to destroy the USA.
Does any one know anything about the source of this article? Who are they?
Maybe that’s what the PTB believes...
Do you mean Allen West ( http://allenbwest.com/2014/04/pentagon-destroy-1-billion-worth-ammo-makes-sense/ )? Or the source of the $1 billion figure?
This only increases my suspicion that the government is behind the current civilian ammo shortage.
Probably a lot of it is 7.62 NATO armor piercing. Which has been deemed to be “handgun ammunition”.
That I breathe my las'
Then by God I pray
That I may pass
In a big pile of hot brass.
There shouldn't be "surplus ammo" in a firefight. And if there is, you ain't fighting hard enough. I've ran out, but I've never had too much.
What the Guns 0 ran to 3rd world Countries can’t use ammo for 50 cents on the dollar!
correct link:
http://allenbwest.com/2014/04/pentagon-destroy-1-billion-worth-ammo-makes-sense/
Thanks for correcting that!
To who? Us? We are the enemy.
Well, the thought was to blow the dump with the enemy on top of you taking them out in the process.
Hardly sarcasm because it's almost literally true. But I understand the label.
“The only time that it make sense to destroy ammunition is when the enemy is about to overrun your position.”
The Japanese didn’t do that during the “Island Hopping” campaign in WWll. My Uncle told me stories of taking an island, and using the stuff the Japanese left behind to attack the next island. He said they’d fire the machine guns until the barrels warped, and then just grab another and continue. The Japanese would only drain the hydraulic fluid from artillery pieces, figuring that would disable them. They forgot about good old Yankee ingenuity! My Uncle and his fellow soldiers would hook up heavy ropes to the pieces, and fasten the other end to Jeeps. The Jeeps took care of the recoil!
I talked to a former coworker and he said there is no ammo for them to go to Camp Swift for marksmanship training. That stopped over two years ago, shortly after I retired.
Is it because of expired lot numbers? If so, it’s nothing new. Whatever the units don’t burn up during gunnery, EOD ends up doing their training on what remains.
While I was in Bosnia, we went to the range in Glamoc, and usually we would get 2 48 round boxes of 40mm training rounds (flash bangs) for the Mk-19 plus 10 live HE rounds for gunnery.
When drawing our ammo we were issued 20 boxes of HEDP and were told that none of it was to be turned in.
The guys with the Ma Duce each drew a bunch of boxes, and I can’t remember exactly what the TOW’s got, but we all got a huge amount of ammo to blow through in 2 hours.
Even our Aero Scout element got to blow through ammo too.
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