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With that said, if you travel the marching roads of Fort Lewis and bother to look in the bushes, you can find whatever you like, from fully loaded M-16 magazines, to grenades. Soldiers apparently chuck em on their marches to lighten the load.
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I very seriously doubt that. In a training area if a weapon is lost that whole unit will stay out till the weapon is found no matter how long it takes. Not to mention that squad leader, platoon sergeant, and platoon leader are going to have a major portion of their butt savagely bit off. Any other gear that is tossed they will have to buy it or get a statement of charges for it unless it's an expendable and gear or TA-50 is not expendable and none of it is cheap. And ammunition especially grenades are strictly controlled. |
You may be right, but that is not what I was told. Maybe they pick em up on the way back.
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A funny anectode is that during the first Gulf War ( I did not deploy but heard this from friends), combat units discarded much uneccessary equipment because during wartime you are not accountable, and this was standard practice in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. But the war was over so quickly, the US Army decided to make folks accountable, and there were a lot of company commanders scrambling around the desert trying to find where their company had dumped their gear.
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