Brigade finds huge weapons cache (Alaska)

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^ | October 17, 2005 | TATABOLINE BRANT

[Tijeras_Slim]

The title made me think we'd uncovered a huge cache of harpoons and ulus of the Inuit Liberation Front.

[dirtbiker]

From the title, I thought they found the cache in Alaska!

Whew, glad to see I'm not the ONLY one......

[elhombrelibre]

Altogether now. Repeat after me. "This proves we're losing. Pay no attention to the facts on the ground. All things mean the same thing. Our enemy is invincible. Bring the boys home. Bush lied."

[CrazyIvan]

I just hope they did an environmental impact study before they blew all that stuff. -)

[elhombrelibre]

It's basically a pallet of SAA.

[i_dont_chat]

The U.S. should already know where the weapons are coming from.

And if we don't know by now, we'll never know.

[Eagle Eye]

At one base I spent time at, there was a regular daily disposal controlled blast that caused a huge mushroom cloud. Some of these munition piles are 40-50 tons. It took the crew most of the day to emplace and rig the charges. According to some sources there was enough munitions to blow consistently every day like this for three years.

[ol painless]

"I hear they can penetrate the frontal armor of an M1 tank at two miles!"

7.62mm AP would do little damage to M1 Abrams armor even at point blank range. However, body armor is another story.

[Pyrthroes]

The question is, Where did this "enormous cache" originate? If not Syria, then by all odds: Iran. This poses the problem of just when the Coalition forces --which now include increasingly veteran Iraqi units-- will go cross-border to interdict this constant traffic, which constitutes a casus belli on its face. If US forces begin staged withdrawals sometime in mid-2006, action could occur within nine months. Particularly in context of Iran's nuclear ambitions, let's hope the hammer falls sooner rather than later.

[sasportas]

some guy with three guns and 1000 rounds of .22 ammunition and the media breathlessly calling it a "huge weapons cache".

You must not have ever lived in Alaska. Everybody in Alaska has more guns and ammo than this. Heavy duty stuff too, not .22. I agree with the point you are making about the MSM, but your scenario doesn't fit up here.

[Redleg Duke]

"Standard ball ammunition is OK, but those 7.62mm armor-piercing rifle or machine-gun rounds are REALLY scary. I hear they can penetrate the frontal armor of an M1 tank at two miles!"

You forgot your sarcasm tag.

[Gamecock]

In other words, Freitag explained in his e-mail, "(Mestas) 'hotwired' a backhoe that was on site and began digging."

Now that is a good NCO.

(I like to think my dad used to do stuff like that)

[Gamecock]

ping

[sr4402]

BUMP

[Deguello]

"that it's 40 small boxes."

Don't forget the four boxes of Dove Loads.

[xzins]

Thanks for the ping.

Hoooahhhh!

[Dick Vomer]

7.62mm armor-piercing rifle or machine-gun rounds are REALLY scary. I hear they can penetrate the frontal armor of an M1 tank at two miles!

[kjam22]

Standard ball ammunition is OK, but those 7.62mm armor-piercing rifle or machine-gun rounds are REALLY scary. I hear they can penetrate the frontal armor of an M1 tank at two miles!

LOL...

[Travis McGee]

I'll bet they had a continuous chicken roast going for all three days! And omelets!

[Travis McGee]

EOD job security as far as the eye can see. Long as you don't blow yourself up.