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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
"For each of those weapons is a Staff NCO who knows by serial number exactly where it is."

I cannot speak for the Army but the Navy and Marine Corps has a record of every firearm and its location. The list of firearms is kept in Crane Indiana (the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane). You have 48 hours to report to "Crane" when a weapon goes missing.

In the 1980s I was the Midshipman at the Naval Academy responsible for compiling the master report to be submitted to Crane. The weapons were M-1s. The rifles were serviceable (only the firing pins had been removed), but had stopped being front line weapons for over 20 years. At the end of one semester two rifles came up missing. They were found in about 12 hours. The rifles had been stored months earlier in a company office, because the midshipmen had left early.

I also remember that after Desert Storm a lot of captured weapons came back to the US and the Marine Corps was having a devil of a time compiling a master list for Crane.

13 posted on 10/13/2023 12:57:06 AM PDT by fini
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To: fini
I also remember that after Desert Storm a lot of captured weapons came back to the US and the Marine Corps was having a devil of a time compiling a master list for Crane.

YEP!

Not to mention, in the Marine Corps, one wrong digit on an 80-column card order can get you a visit from NCIS!! I KNOW! When you accidentally try to order ten M16s while serving with a combat service detachment in the Phillippines, THEY WILL ASK QUESTIONS!!
19 posted on 10/13/2023 3:49:48 AM PDT by ExTxMarine
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