{"id":27952,"date":"2011-12-16T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27952"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:45:13","slug":"fbi-gangs-are-stealing-munitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27952","title":{"rendered":"FBI: Gangs are stealing munitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel sends this link from Business Insider<\/a> and Military.com<\/a> about gang members stealing military munitions from bases; <\/p>\n

The FBI released its gang assessment in October saying that of the 1.4 million gang members in the U.S., many are in the American military.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know what “many of them” means, but I’m sure it’s meant to make us think that millions of gang members are in the military. At the Business Insider link there’s a picture of a 105mm artillery round found in a gang member’s home. What is a gang going to do with an artillery round?<\/p>\n

While it appears the Army has the largest problem with gangs, some experts feel other branches may be underreporting the number of gang members within the rank and file.<\/p>\n

“I think the problem — percentage wise — is bigger in the Marines but there are no statistics to back that up since the Marines fail to admit it ever existed,” said Richard Valdemar, a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department sergeant and gang expert. “In incidents I am personally familiar with, it seems to be mostly in the Marines.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like that, Marines? No one can pin down numbers, so they’ll just paint with a broad brush.<\/p>\n

Former Marine and previous gang member T.J. Heyden told the Daily Press that none of this surprises him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot harder to get firearms and rifles off a base but artillery rounds aren\u2019t that difficult,\u201d he said, pointing out firearms are counted three times a day, but it’s much harder to account for artillery shells.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to say you fired 10 rounds when you only actually fired eight or six.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, and artillery rounds come in so handy on the street, too.<\/p>\n

Gang experts feel a more stringent qualification process during recruitment plus continued vigilance and education about gangs and their practices could help identify gang members within the ranks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recruiters want to tell us what the military can do? It sounds to me like the the gun thing with VoteVets, if they have a clean record, the only left to do is profiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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