A biology professor at our college I became friends with said he came up with the down payment for his house by selling an M-60 he had stolen. I would have been skeptical except for the fully automatic M-16 he showed me that he kept in this office. He agreed to take it home after I pointed out that students routinely cleaned his office. We were both Vietnam vets. He with 4th Division infantry and me with a Riverine Navy LST. He always carried a tokarev pistol he took off an NVA he had killed. I said he could keep that, because for some reason people always called me when some unstable person showed up on campus and I liked him to come along for the confrontation. This was before there was so much interest in PTSD. I figured he was just a bit Asiatic, but he scared some people on campus.
Interesting. I was in the 4th ID when the PVS-4 was lifted. Maybe people in that division are just predisposed to liberate military equipment...
—”I would have been skeptical except for the fully automatic M-16 he showed me that he kept in this office.”
We had a supply clerk/scrounge/entrepreneur that would purchase any “found souvenirs”.
Not far from our LZ was an Air Force radar site, the AF guys were TDY for 90 days and flew in and out on Air Force transports and did NOT go through customs or the usual searches. They would purchase almost anything.
He sold a green Swedish K, it was cool. he paid the finder a couple of hundred dollars and claimed to make a hundred on the deal. he was also selling 1911s NEW in the white canvas foil-lined package for $25. One guy bought one test fired it and sent it home, forgetting the full magazine! No
problem????