!4,000 rounds of ammo goes missing in Fort Bragg

 

Authorities are trying to find 14' date='000 rounds of ammunition missing from Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

The ammunition went missing from the 1st Brigade Combat Team at Fort Bragg, said Staff Sgt. Joshua Ford.

The missing ammunition can be used in the M-4 and M-16 assault rifles.

Someone alerted Fort Bragg leadership about the missing items on Wednesday, Ford said.

After the report, the 1st Brigade team, about 3,500 people, was placed on lockdown during an initial investigation, Ford said.

The ammunition was not found and the lockdown was lifted Wednesday night.

"The incident is currently under investigation and all appropriate measures are being taken to locate the small arms ammunition that was discovered missing on Wednesday," said Lt. Col David Connolly, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division.

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So that is what like maybe $3,000 bucks of ammo. Do yourself a favor and don't read the comments at the bottom, unless you like conspiracy theories.

the comments at the bottom are funny.. those are the people who will be voting pretty soon

Oh christ. Those comments. Faith in humanity -200.

1. They probably shot the stuff and didn't realize it.

2. Somebody decided to do inventory after 10 years.

3. They can't count.

I think everyone should read the comments. Well, if you want a laugh that is.

 

"It is just 5.56, you can by that at Walmart."

"No you can't".

 

"No way one person could carry that all. Most soldiers can only carry about 300 rounds."

 

"Who let the ATF on base?"

 

It could very easily be an accounting error. Heck, 14 guys, one day at the range, there goes your 14k rounds. The E-3 or E-4 stuck in the armory doing the issuing, who hates it and wishes he were out shooting instead of filling out stupid paperwork, and there you go. Problem solved.

Oh my.....14,000 rounds.

I bet afew of us forum guys have more than that stockpiled.

who says the cold war is over.

Do they have any ups workers their ?

I can pretty much guarantee that it’s simply an accountability error. While I am Air Force not Army, I am in the munitions career field (or AMMO as we like to call ourselves). It’s not hard at all to think of a few dozen ways to “lose” 14,000 rounds paperwork wise. Examples include someone not doing the expenditure sheet, not filling out an expenditure sheet out right, not sending that expenditure sheet to the right people or at all, the expenditure sheet being lost, the accountability system they use being down when the expenditure sheet was sent, so someone forgot to do it when it came back on line, and that’s just expenditure wise. Speaking from experience, currently we are in a situation where it look like we are missing about 200,000 rounds according to our accountability system because the transaction cannot be processed until the account they are were issued to is unfrozen. If one of the dozen or so pieces of paper documenting the transactions goes missing before they are processed in the accountability system suddenly we are missing 14,000. Of course that won’t happen because we are Air Force and not Army, we are much better at accountability than them .

Oh my.....14,000 rounds.

I bet afew of us forum guys have more than that stockpiled.

 

 

I get scared when I get that low.

 

Harry