[AAABEST]

I've got to wonder what's going on here, as I hear a lot of this type of thing going on.

When I was in (not even that long ago) there was no such thing as a "lost" weapon. Our entire battalion stayed in the feild (Hoensfeld) for an extra three days once looking for a weapon some idiot lost in the mud there.

500 pissed off guys staying deployed to find a single M-16.

The Jesse Lynch thing was disturbing too. A clean weapon was mandatory, if any one of us had one that was inoperable or uncared for we got that thing stuck up our asses.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yeah, they don't dick around with missing weapons. If one isn't accounted for, it had better be, or someone (aka "Everyone") is in some deep doo-doo until it is.

We had a lock-down on our ship for nearly two weeks because of a missing sidearm. No one left the ship (except a few people under escort for dental apoointments, etc.) until someone finally broke down and admitted they stole it and sold it. What was the worst part was, we had only been in port for two days after a month out when it happened.