{"id":129875,"date":"2022-08-28T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129875"},"modified":"2022-08-27T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T16:20:23","slug":"missing-m240-ooops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129875","title":{"rendered":"Missing M240. Ooops…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seems the Army misplaced an M240 machine gun out at Ft. Irwin. CID is posting wanted posters (above ) to encourage anyone who knows of it to drop a dime.<\/p>\n

Are you currently somewhere near the Army\u2019s National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California? If so, have you seen an M240B machine gun? If you have, or you know anyone who has, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division would like to know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now we get to the interesting part:<\/p>\n

The poster says that the currently astray crew-served weapon was last seen on Aug. 4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n

Two and a half weeks?<\/p>\n

Wonder how many searches have been done? How many ‘police-call’ type lines of soldiers walking across training areas? I remember entire exercises being shut down while a missing weapon was searched for, and once when the entire 3rd Cavalry Regiment had to tie their weapon slings to their LBE harnesses with 3′ of paracord (really sucked for folks like M60 gunners) – for months,\u00a0 over a temporarily misplaced rifle. Missing Machine gun? One suspects several links in the chain of command are cursing and preparing civilian resumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seems the Army misplaced an M240 machine gun out at Ft. Irwin. CID is posting wanted … Missing M240. Ooops…<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,359,337,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-army","category-training-incidents","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}