[OldGoatCPO]

Had a Marine go to brig on mainland Japan for selling excess .45 rounds to undercover Japanese NIS agent. I know the details because I was called to testify. I was a classified materials escort and brought two magazines of .45 rounds in with a M1911. They belonged to an armory Stateside. They shipped the pistol back, but not the rounds. The rounds were no longer in the inventory. At that time ammo was worth a lot to the Yakuza.

Similar stuff happened a during Iraqi freedom with weapons and ammo. During post deployment the inventories came up short. People injured or killed I assume. Their weapons ended up somewhere. I was under the impression the weapons were written off as destroyed or turned over to deploying units. Who knows where those weapons ended up after 2009. I wonder how many of those weapons ultimately found their way back to the States via black markets.

[blueunicorn6]

I’ve been retired for a while, but even back then, the crooks had better rifles and pistols than we did.

They really wanted night vision and guided missiles.