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Posted: 4/5/2004 11:11:16 AM EDT
Seized by customs at Eglin AFB:
         
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Posted: 4/5/2004 11:21:38 AM EDT
[#1]
Oh boy, somebody's in deep shit.
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Posted: 4/5/2004 11:24:08 AM EDT
[#2]
Good Greif! Thats alot of toys...
Just sad that these are all going for a scrapper 
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Posted: 4/5/2004 11:24:24 AM EDT
[#3]
DAMN!
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Posted: 4/5/2004 11:26:49 AM EDT
[#4]
Why would freight be coming into Eglin AFB?
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Posted: 4/5/2004 11:32:45 AM EDT
[#5]
F%&@ing U.P.S.!!!!! No wonder my tracking number was'nt working???I said next day air!!!Not Air Force Base!!!HA
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Posted: 4/5/2004 12:24:33 PM EDT
[#6]
It may have been some enterprising young troop wanting to start his own import/export company.
KF |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 12:35:29 PM EDT
[#7]
Hey, private! These yours?
But Sir, I am a Captain. You're a Private now son! |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 12:39:55 PM EDT
[#8]
.....anybody seen Pave????
Seriously though.....I can see importing some of that stuff, but wtf do they want those seats for? |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 12:58:05 PM EDT
[#9]
Sorry Guys,my Big Surprise for your Christmas presents this year has met a set back........uh,gotta go.........bye!
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Posted: 4/5/2004 1:14:37 PM EDT
[#10]
 whoa!
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Posted: 4/5/2004 1:26:59 PM EDT
[#11]
DAMN!
I wouldn't mind getting my hands on some of that good stuff for my collection, especially some of those Iraqi and Romanian bayonets. A few RPK stocks sets would be nice too... I wonder what they will end up doing with all of that stuff. I'd guess that they will probably end up keeping some of the AK's for "reference". |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 1:30:22 PM EDT
[#12]
Damned fine collection!!!!
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Posted: 4/5/2004 1:37:43 PM EDT
[#13]
Elgin AFB has a nice armaments museums. I'd bet ya that's where some of this stuff is headed.
SB |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 1:52:14 PM EDT
[#14]
Damn! Thats some nice stuff going to the furnace.
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Posted: 4/5/2004 1:54:15 PM EDT
[#15]
oh holy shit!!!!
damn! mutherfucker!! sonovabitch!!!! sacremento, california!!!!! man! some poor bastards are going to pay for that little boo boo! how many freakin' bayonets are there? how many of those "3-hole" ak's and rpk's? rpg's? what were they thinking?!?!?! holy mother of all souvenit stands, batman!!!! if those guys had pulled that one off...the entire base..no, that entire wing of the airforce would have had lockers full of contraban toys! machineguns??!!?? were they freaking nutz?!?!?! SIX THOUSAND AND SIXTY POUNDS of crap? talk about brazen! a jeep shipped home in boxes...maybe. 6060 lbs. of machineguns and rpg's in one big assed box???!!!???!!! there's enough crap there to stock k-var for the rest of the summer! holy shit! i'll bet the eod techs sweated thru unpacking that one! some poor shmuck is gonna be cleaning runways with a toothbrush for a long, long time! i guess the feds will be building a new wing onto the evidence room, just to store this stuff. kf, what's the scuttlebutt on this...er...shipment? why didn't these genius flyboys arrange an 'airdrop' over...say...minerva, ohio???!!! heheheh! yes sir! step right up! campy's slightly used bayonet emporium is now open for business! can i supersize that handguard order? an rpg to go with the land mine, sir? |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 2:57:08 PM EDT
[#16]
Yup, looks like some military boys were trying to ship home war-trophies. Notice the MRE cases used to pack some of the stuff.
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Posted: 4/5/2004 3:14:08 PM EDT
[#17]
Campy,
Well said! This crate and its contents reminds of the 'Amnesty Box' set up at Camp 15 near Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia during out exit of GW1. Its about the same height but the one at Camp 15 was about twice as long and thus twice as big. We were warned that if Customs caught anyone with anything that the entire flight would be held back (i.e., no go home as planned) and searched. Apparently some guys got the bright idea to start with similar items but included some ears, yes, I said ears, hand grenades, etc etc use your imagination. The last few weeks during our exit, folks were dumping their 'war trophies' in the amenesty box after obvious second thoughts. On the way back from chow we'd walk deliberately close to it and peek in on our way by everyday, you know just to see :) . It started out with bayonets, rounds (arty and firearm), then the big stuff started showing up...rifles (SA, bolts), RPG's, more grenades and assembled....we found boocoo chinese grenades but mostly unassembled. Some idiots were assembling the F'n things and packin them around. We were warned about how unstable the Chinese crap was but again most of the fuses were seperate from the frag end of it. After seeing a few too many of those we decided on not walking to close to that wood box anymore as it was startng to fill up. In the last couple of days we were there it was getting full. Someone even drove up to it and unhitched a AA Gun, the kind you tow behind a truck with a seat, 4 barrels, 4 ammo cans, shoulder brace with traversing wheels...the damn thing was in working order with ammo!! Somebody obviously had this on the back of their HMMWV or CUCV for awhile because we were miles from Kuwait. This dont surprise me but I have to admit this was f'n ballsy. Anyone here remember the box at Camp 15? |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 3:23:11 PM EDT
[#18]
Holy crap! I'd have spent the 10 minutes and written up a war-trophy/bring-back form for that one! |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 3:35:34 PM EDT
[#19]
a friend of mine was based near kandahar. him and a bud each bought a t54 tank from the locals. he had several dshk's in his stash, also.
sadly, it was all left behind. |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 4:03:30 PM EDT
[#20]
It's really sad we can't have all those goodies that you can just buy off the street in a every third world shithole for less than the price of a tax stamp.
Wow, that's a helluva load of bayonets. Someone stocking up for the end of the AWB? 
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Posted: 4/5/2004 4:37:18 PM EDT
[#21]
In a free country, there would be nothing wrong with what these troopers did!!!
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Posted: 4/5/2004 5:01:23 PM EDT
[#22]
Something this big must have had a couple of guys pitchin in. Photos like this make we wonder about the ones that "get away". Must be a helluva lot of stuff coming back that isn't caught.
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Posted: 4/5/2004 5:12:52 PM EDT
[#23]
Dad related to me that his SeaBee Batt had to ditch a couple of deuce & half trucks worth of stuff. Dad himself had a M1 garand sniper rifle he horsetraded before he came home....couldn't bring it back because the serial # was too high (still "US property" or something like that). |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 5:43:43 PM EDT
[#24]
At least the terrorists scumbags(or what the media would call "freedom fighters") can't use it.
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Posted: 4/5/2004 5:54:27 PM EDT
[#25]
hey roosy, u got sum splainin ta do
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Posted: 4/5/2004 6:18:02 PM EDT
[#26]
A couple of questions I have.... What would be the point of field stripping everything if you were going to ship it in the same box? I wonder how high up chain this went? I can't believe a couple of enlisted guys would be that stupid to do such a thing. I'm assuming someone will serve time over the FA stuff. Shows what happens when someone gets greedy.....
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Posted: 4/5/2004 6:21:29 PM EDT
[#27]
Actually at this point we were really jones'n to get on that freedom bird and get home. Thats not the whole of it though. We also found every sort of vehicle, military and civilian that were left behind from the F'n cowards that hauled butt and left them running. I know several guys who were driving around Mercedes Benz and even tanks until they realized it probably wasn't a good idea to be operating a T-55 in the area :D We captured alot of vehicles, APC and tanks that were in running order along with tons of ordnance and lots of stuff still in cosmolene. :P At the time we never realized there was such a thing as a War Trophy option however our unit did get one of the AA Guns. Its sitting out in front of it now, decommisioned and bolted to a concrete footing :) Q |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 6:28:30 PM EDT
[#28]
Airman Basic who?!!!!!! Just Stupid.
Let me inquire..... |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 6:42:28 PM EDT
[#29]
Damn. Just damn. |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 7:07:45 PM EDT
[#30]
Gots nothin to do with it. The unauthorized taking of war booty is against the Geneva Convention & UCMJ. |
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Posted: 4/5/2004 7:12:12 PM EDT
[#31]
Were those bolt action rifles Lee Enfields??
It really, truly is a shame that our boys can't bring home whatever trophies they want for risking their necks over there :( |
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Posted: 4/6/2004 7:19:13 AM EDT
[#32]
An ISU90 filled with metal commo boxes would of been better cover then a wood crate.......
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Posted: 4/6/2004 7:28:38 AM EDT
[#33]
yeah, but he HAD and tank of his own :) |
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Posted: 4/6/2004 1:20:28 PM EDT
[#34]
I heard "Stories" about stripped AK's in 5 ton fuel tanks....also connex boxes w/ booty behind plywood walls....all unconfirmned mind you.
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Posted: 4/6/2004 5:04:37 PM EDT
[#35]
The UCMJ is a violation of constitutional rights to begin with. In a free country, all citizens would have the rights recognized by the constitution. Assuming these goods were not stolen, they are now-- stolen by the federal government. |
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Posted: 4/6/2004 5:11:06 PM EDT
[#36]
You're comment is way out of line. Take your political statements somewhere else. I don't care to hear them in my thread. KF |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 5:34:20 AM EDT
[#37]
Military law has ALWAYS been different and more restrictive than what applies to civilians, even when the Founders were still alive. |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 7:26:39 AM EDT
[#38]
Believe it or not, I think I met one of the guys invloved here... At least I'm 99% sure he's involved with this haul... I got to fondle a pair of AKs brought in from Iraq (also stripped to receiver/barrel only).
Now I don't know any names, I wouldn't know how to get in touch with him, I even forgot what he looked like ( I think he was either white or black or Samoan). But, I will say I had no burning desire to report him to anyone anyway. He's a soldier. He and his friends got hold of some damn nice souveniers. And it is my belief that all of us as FREE AMERICANS should be allowed to own such. |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 7:57:21 AM EDT
[#39]
In a depature from conventional wisdom, i think we should be more liek europeans. The Swiss, to be exact. A machine gun in every home, with citizens capable of using them.
that box right there would make a good start. |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 8:02:27 AM EDT
[#40]
Somebody has better group buys than we do!
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Posted: 4/7/2004 8:21:14 AM EDT
[#41]
What a series of truly mouth watering photos.The posibilities.........A truly "Special ED Ak"....or...a truly "Special Ed RPK."Hmmmmmmmm....RPKs..bayonetts galore...what a stash.Like looking at a lotto tickety that was one number off the grand prize..........nice try.Why is the shit all taken appart though?
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Posted: 4/7/2004 8:39:02 AM EDT
[#42]
RPGs, Landmines, RPKs, AKs. And Enfields?!
 It could only be trophies. Why else would anyone include Enfields? |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 8:56:38 AM EDT
[#43]
Look at the shipping label - it's addressed to Ted Kennedy!  |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 9:02:13 AM EDT
[#44]
....Still trying to get some gouge on it....could just be they were taken apart to be made into "Training aids" (barrels plugged, trigger group welded) and the paperwork wasn't done right....you can't tell from the pictures...and with The US EOD School located at Eglin, I'm not sure even Customs would (apparently) casually lay out mines and RPGs if not empty.
I went through the legal drill in Gulf I to bring back some for display , etc. in the squadron. |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 9:35:17 AM EDT
[#45]
What's the big deal? That's just one of our local gun shows. They're always like that.
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Posted: 4/7/2004 10:30:38 AM EDT
[#46]
So what exactly do you have to fill out forms for, to import? I see large but spent tank shells, seats, bayonettes. Are they banned from import with out permission? What about wooden furniture?
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Posted: 4/7/2004 10:56:35 AM EDT
[#47]
CCA probably didn't handle that GB.  |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 2:21:04 PM EDT
[#48]
Well, sports fans….here I was: trying to give undeserved “IQ Credit”, where it wasn’t due. I talked to my Eglin source: It is exactly as stupid as it looks, and then some (considering the ranks of those involved)(“O” and “E” both), I’m ashamed to say…….what was that about “News at 10, over to you Dan”?
My advise? Buy paper company stock: by the time the system is done with them, you will be able to walk feet-dry to Cuba, if laid out in the Gulf….. BTW: Lots of innocent people pushed, bumped, nudged and shipped that crate, by air (with lots of troops on the same plane?) or sea, then ground. Just great, Commie-Pact explosives found melting in a desert…..Morons. |
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Posted: 4/7/2004 3:20:47 PM EDT
[#49]
What is the big deal??? All I see is a box full of pieces of wood and metal... no firearms here.
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Posted: 4/8/2004 5:15:51 AM EDT
[#50]
...If indeed those munitions are "live" somebody will be making little rocks out of big rocks for a long time! Hey Pave....can you atleast get them to spare the life on some of the commie wood? Ya...know no reason to cut down a tree ifn we already have that wood and all.... |
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