The Gun Counter

Following links on the "Letter to anti-gun folks" post, I ran across THIS gem. What a goober.

WTH did he post that online? And obviously he already has the item. What a maroon.

The stupid! It burns!

I was unit NVG custodian for a while. EVERY pair was inventoried, PMCS was performed, and although most of the 51 pair of NVG's did not work, it would have been my BIG problem had any of them gone missing. They were accounted for, and were definitely considered "sensitive items" although they were both obsolete and non-functional. This person is asking for a long vacation at Uncle Sam's expense.

4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division's "C" Company (about 100 enlisted men from one of Lewis-McChord's Stryker Brigades) is at the end of week one of being restricted to barracks (downgraded from lockdown) after $600,000 in restricted military gear (night vision equipment, optics, etc.) walked away over the holidays. And he chooses NOW to post that?

This guy better hope CID has a dial-up connection, or they're going to be crawling up his ass with a microscope. There are DoD law enforcement people whose entire job is to scour the internet looking for misappropriated military equipment. Raise your hand if you think they won't get a warrant and seize everything that guy has or has had contact with in the last 30 days. They will put his entire house on jacks and haul it away, and keep it as evidence in an ongoing investigation that has no sign of ending.

I call the CID folks when a solders gear is in a delinquent storage unit , and let them have the US property before a sale, we have had our share or solders with problems , drinking, drugs and ending up as a guest in various state and federal facilities.
Yup they get real excited when some of their gear goes missing.

I love this one

How is a non-service member under the jurisdiction of the UCMJ?

Apparently the concept of Federal Law being applied to stolen government property is beyond him.

I was working security at Hamvention one year when we were told to ignore the guys with dark blue windbreakers riding around the flea market on golf carts that didn't belong to us (Security were basically the only folks, other than EMS, allowed to have them in the flea market area during open ours). We weren't to stop them, talk to them or mention them on our radios.

Some time mid-morning Saturday a set of spaces suddenly opened up as a (literally) truck load of "surplus" military gear was hauled out, along with the "owners" of said equipment.

Now collecting, restoring, and operating old military radios is a large niche of the amateur radio community (though why, for the love of G*D, anyone would spend their own money to willingly hump a PRC-77 around....). But as a general rule they don't tend to collect current generation digital radios with intact crypto modules.

randy wrote:I love this one

How is a non-service member under the jurisdiction of the UCMJ?

Apparently the concept of Federal Law being applied to stolen government property is beyond him.

No shit.

NVGs/scopes are not illegal for Joe Public to own......unless they're stolen. The UCMJ has nothing to do with it.
Receiving and reselling stolen Army property is apparently beyond this twit's understanding.

CByrneIV wrote:

randy wrote: Now collecting, restoring, and operating old military radios is a large niche of the amateur radio community (though why, for the love of G*D, anyone would spend their own money to willingly hump a PRC-77 around....). But as a general rule they don't tend to collect current generation digital radios with intact crypto modules.

Something about the unauthorized possession of said intact crypto module carrying a mandatory 20 year prison sentence in federal "pound you in the ass" prison...

Exactly. Even at a fixed site like I'm at the "C" word is spoken with great fear. Never mess with crypto!!