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Soldiers on Lockdown After 'Sensitive' Military Equipment is Stolen from Washington Base
FoxNews.com ^ | 1/8/12 | NewsCore

Posted on 01/08/2012 11:19:00 AM PST by ColdOne

FORT LEWIS, Wash – More than 100 soldiers were on lockdown Sunday after "sensitive" military equipment was stolen from a base in Fort Lewis, Wash.

The soldiers were put on lockdown Wednesday after items such as scopes, night vision goggles and range finders went missing from Joint Base Lewis-McChord over the holidays, myFOXSpokane.com reported.

Lewis-McChord spokesman Matt Hinkle said Saturday that the army was carrying out a criminal investigation into the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division after the "sensitive" items went missing, The News Tribune reported.

"They'll be on base until the items are found," Hinkle, who estimated the company contained about 100- 200 soldiers, said. "This is the unit's property that's come up missing."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: lockdown; lost; missing
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1 posted on 01/08/2012 11:19:01 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Fort Lewis was one of the haunts of the Beltway Sniper who terrorized the DC metro area in 2002.


2 posted on 01/08/2012 11:21:48 AM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
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To: ColdOne

A little rear echelon redistribution of wealth.


3 posted on 01/08/2012 11:22:21 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: ColdOne

Ohhhhh, that sucks hardcore. Glad I’m not in 4-2.


4 posted on 01/08/2012 11:24:19 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: ColdOne
lost Pictures, Images and Photos
5 posted on 01/08/2012 11:25:02 AM PST by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: ColdOne

Time to check Ebay for some great post-holiday specials.


6 posted on 01/08/2012 11:26:09 AM PST by cryptical (The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: ColdOne

Gangs improving their caspacity to sack what remains of American wealth.


7 posted on 01/08/2012 11:29:42 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: ColdOne
Soldiers on Lockdown
Saw this on the news. They interviewed a couple of soldiers' relatives who were whining that the lockdown was "unfair."
Unbelievable.
8 posted on 01/08/2012 11:37:24 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ColdOne
"What goggles?"


9 posted on 01/08/2012 11:37:33 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Getting kind of ambitious aren’t ya?


10 posted on 01/08/2012 11:42:35 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Future Snake Eater

If I was locked down until who knows when, I would track down the asshats and give them a blanket party


11 posted on 01/08/2012 12:01:16 PM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Same thing happen to us with some night vision goggles ,turned out that had been send in for repairs, D’oh


12 posted on 01/08/2012 12:04:17 PM PST by molson209
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To: ColdOne
...night vision goggles and range finders went missing...

I don't think that these inanimate objects "went" anything. It sounds to me like they were stolen.

13 posted on 01/08/2012 12:05:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed!!!!!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

I was also wondering if there might be gang members in the unit.


14 posted on 01/08/2012 12:12:31 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: gundog

note to unit armorers: look inside the cases when you inventory, don’t just assume that the items are actually in the case.


15 posted on 01/08/2012 12:12:43 PM PST by RC one (Scorch the earth Newt. Scorch it.)
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To: Yorlik803

If that person was known, there wouldn’t be any blankets involved, they’d just beat his ass until he gave up the equipment.

Thank God it wasn’t a weapon—then the whole post would be locked down!


16 posted on 01/08/2012 12:21:13 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Enterprise
There are reports of gang members being groomed for enlistment for the sole purpose of obtaining sophisticated and heavy weapons. Some of the weaponry is heading south to Mexico. A few years ago there was a report of an arrest made where those arrested had artillery they were taking to Mexico. I'm sure others are taking weapons for the Social War that is coming here.
17 posted on 01/08/2012 12:22:26 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I serviced NVGs as a Reserve miltech. As long as the units kept them locked up in the arms room and did monthly sensitive item inventory just as with the weapons, then no problemo.

Units that train in the field a lot are going to have all kinds of sensitive stuff signed out at all times. Got it. But as long as that NVG or radio or weapon is on a hand receipt with serial # and somebody’s signed for it, accountability should be easy to establish, just sayin’.

PS by your username you must be a `real helicopter pilot’. I was too, a gazillion years ago. Vietnam ‘71-72.


18 posted on 01/08/2012 12:23:10 PM PST by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: Enterprise

Hate to say it, but I would not be surprised. In my husbands days in senior leadership, it was considered more racially based than gang related, but that might be a distinction without a difference.


19 posted on 01/08/2012 12:25:35 PM PST by ArmyTeach (Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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To: molson209
Same thing happen to us with some night vision goggles ,turned out that had been send in for repairs, D’oh

I'll bet that XO got quite a lesson on property accountability afterwards!

20 posted on 01/08/2012 12:26:18 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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