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'Sensitive' items vanish at JBLM; infantry company is locked down
1/8/2012 12:09:41 AM
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/01/07/1973797/sensitive-items-vanish-at-jblm.html?storylink=rss
I cant wait to go to work on monday
I cant wait to go to work on monday
1/8/2012 12:17:31 AM
I was just down at Surplus Ammo and they had a flyer hanging with details on what had gone missing, some serious optics. The posted reward is $10,000.
1/8/2012 2:12:54 AM
Glad its not my company this time. Monday should be interesting indeed.
1/8/2012 4:41:13 AM
Thank God I'm out I don't miss that shit one bit.
1/8/2012 5:58:08 AM
8 more months...
1/8/2012 1:06:48 PM
I remember hearing about instances like this in the past, usually when some pvs/nvg gear went missing
1/8/2012 1:16:13 PM
I remember a few years ago a geocacher confided in me that he was out looking for a geocache and spotted an ammo can in a hollow stump. Not unusual, as ammo cans are common containers, and stumps are common hiding places. He said he pulled the can out and it was unusually heavy, and more surprising, there was another two beneath it. He found several bags of other gear hidden in the area as well. He took three or four cans of 9mm home. I advised him to (at least) notify the Ft. about the other gear.
1/8/2012 2:06:51 PM
Originally Posted By Mainsail:
I remember a few years ago a geocacher confided in me that he was out looking for a geocache and spotted an ammo can in a hollow stump. Not unusual, as ammo cans are common containers, and stumps are common hiding places. He said he pulled the can out and it was unusually heavy, and more surprising, there was another two beneath it. He found several bags of other gear hidden in the area as well. He took three or four cans of 9mm home. I advised him to (at least) notify the Ft. about the other gear.
I remember a few years ago a geocacher confided in me that he was out looking for a geocache and spotted an ammo can in a hollow stump. Not unusual, as ammo cans are common containers, and stumps are common hiding places. He said he pulled the can out and it was unusually heavy, and more surprising, there was another two beneath it. He found several bags of other gear hidden in the area as well. He took three or four cans of 9mm home. I advised him to (at least) notify the Ft. about the other gear.
So that's where my sht went!
Just kidding... I don't miss this shit either... when my bn came back from Somalia we had a number of lock downs, for "lost" stuff, and "found" stuff...
1/8/2012 2:11:04 PM
Yay!
Nothing like being locked down!
Last time it happened to me, it was a missing M-16a2 service rifle.
Had a 6 hour formation once while the camp was searched for a missing Ka-Bar.
Nothing like being locked down!
Last time it happened to me, it was a missing M-16a2 service rifle.
Had a 6 hour formation once while the camp was searched for a missing Ka-Bar.
1/8/2012 3:05:12 PM
Once did hands across the desert for a missing M60 at Ft. Irwin... turned out it was an OC that took it off a vehicle in the middle of the night and stashed it some place the unit had not been... only he forgot to turn off his tracker 
1/8/2012 5:29:56 PM
Originally Posted By Madcap72:
Yay!
Nothing like being locked down!
Last time it happened to me, it was a missing M-16a2 service rifle.
Had a 6 hour formation once while the camp was searched for a missing Ka-Bar.
Yay!
Nothing like being locked down!
Last time it happened to me, it was a missing M-16a2 service rifle.
Had a 6 hour formation once while the camp was searched for a missing Ka-Bar.
For a knife?! Holy Shit! I'd thought those things were consumables. We almost lost our Thanksgiving 96 once because we lost a screwdriver. Now this is a big deal, my unit being AirWing and all, but we were about a mile from the flightline and my unit was I level which meant we didn't even work directly on the damn birds! Cooler heads prevailed and we went home after 8 hours of searching and formations. Found out later it was in a SSGTs coveralls. He found it when he went home......
1/9/2012 12:22:55 AM
Originally Posted By FrozenTundraMonkey:
For a knife?! Holy Shit! I'd thought those things were consumables. We almost lost our Thanksgiving 96 once because we lost a screwdriver. Now this is a big deal, my unit being AirWing and all, but we were about a mile from the flightline and my unit was I level which meant we didn't even work directly on the damn birds! Cooler heads prevailed and we went home after 8 hours of searching and formations. Found out later it was in a SSGTs coveralls. He found it when he went home......
Best part, is at the time, Ka-Bars were issued to people who get an M9. M9's got issued to staff NCO's and Officers. Originally Posted By Madcap72:
Yay!
Nothing like being locked down!
Last time it happened to me, it was a missing M-16a2 service rifle.
Had a 6 hour formation once while the camp was searched for a missing Ka-Bar.
Yay!
Nothing like being locked down!
Last time it happened to me, it was a missing M-16a2 service rifle.
Had a 6 hour formation once while the camp was searched for a missing Ka-Bar.
For a knife?! Holy Shit! I'd thought those things were consumables. We almost lost our Thanksgiving 96 once because we lost a screwdriver. Now this is a big deal, my unit being AirWing and all, but we were about a mile from the flightline and my unit was I level which meant we didn't even work directly on the damn birds! Cooler heads prevailed and we went home after 8 hours of searching and formations. Found out later it was in a SSGTs coveralls. He found it when he went home......
The knife was on the armory sight count, and no one gets cut loose till the counts in. I took a detail to search the motor pool, and it was found in the visor of a gun truck. Lame part was, this was 2-3 months after float, and we were supposed to be on a "down cycle" and not training.
Getting a 96 kanked over a tool would be fucked!
1/9/2012 1:37:07 AM
Look in the arms room again.
1/9/2012 1:54:45 AM
Funny, 9 times out of 10 thats the answer. Glad I dont work in the arms room anymore.
1/9/2012 6:57:32 AM
This was a LOT of stuff. Into the dozens of items. And expensive stuff. Not just M68s and NVGs, but also thermals.
CID is offering a $10k reward for it.
Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile
CID is offering a $10k reward for it.
Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile
1/9/2012 11:48:15 AM
Originally Posted By Unicorn:
This was a LOT of stuff. Into the dozens of items. And expensive stuff. Not just M68s and NVGs, but also thermals.
CID is offering a $10k reward for it.
Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile
This was a LOT of stuff. Into the dozens of items. And expensive stuff. Not just M68s and NVGs, but also thermals.
CID is offering a $10k reward for it.
Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile
Got a list?
1/9/2012 5:35:58 PM
Saw this posted on another forum.
1/9/2012 5:44:23 PM
Jesus,
That's all of the optics for that company
1/9/2012 6:07:32 PM
Anyone want to take a stab in the dark on the retail value for everything on that list that is missing? I'm going to say > $250k.
1/9/2012 6:08:50 PM
Yeah, I'm gonna guess there are a couple people with shiny shit on their collars and puckered assholes over this...
1/9/2012 9:44:44 PM
My question is where the fuck was this shit secured? I've been out quite awhile now, but we used to keep sensitive items in the Arms Room, which back in the day you had to get the keys from Bn. Who the fuck was on CQ? Or do they even have CQ anymore? Please tell me it wasn't in the Supply Room, or worse yet the Day Room
Summer of 1983, Grafenwoehr training Area, another unit lost an M16A1, we were at Camp Kasserine, all our weapons accounted for. Mustered us out of the movie Theater / Snack Bar to go help look for it. 3 days of single arm interval across the firing points, I don't think they ever found it.
Summer of 1983, Grafenwoehr training Area, another unit lost an M16A1, we were at Camp Kasserine, all our weapons accounted for. Mustered us out of the movie Theater / Snack Bar to go help look for it. 3 days of single arm interval across the firing points, I don't think they ever found it.
1/9/2012 10:03:48 PM
IIRC wasn't the Last missing M-16 from JBLM found in a porta shitter near the fence?
1/9/2012 10:55:51 PM
Originally Posted By AnthonyL:
Anyone want to take a stab in the dark on the retail value for everything on that list that is missing? I'm going to say > $250k.
Anyone want to take a stab in the dark on the retail value for everything on that list that is missing? I'm going to say > $250k.
Its going to be a lot more than that. I would say that list is more than 500k
1/10/2012 12:49:10 AM
Probably in a contico box stuffed in a container in Afghanistan.
1/10/2012 1:25:55 AM
Holy crap, how does $500K worth of stuff walk out the door?
1/10/2012 1:46:02 AM
That's a lot of gear! I bet it's been misplaced, wouldn't be the first time the Army's misplaced equipment.
1/10/2012 6:55:56 PM
Saw the list at Surplus Ammo and Arms... hope CID pulls it out and gets the guy!!
1/10/2012 10:42:12 PM
NWCN just said it is $600,000 worth of gear. Someone replaced the lock on the arms room, when they got the new lock off and looked in, the gear was gone.
1/10/2012 11:16:17 PM
It's been a while, but I recall the locks on arms rooms were a specific type, and being controlled items themselves... on top of being alarmed, so you had to call when you opened the door...
Originally Posted By Windustsearch:
NWCN just said it is $600,000 worth of gear. Someone replaced the lock on the arms room, when they got the new lock off and looked in, the gear was gone.
NWCN just said it is $600,000 worth of gear. Someone replaced the lock on the arms room, when they got the new lock off and looked in, the gear was gone.
1/11/2012 12:42:17 AM
When I was in, we had a sister company lose a frag at the range and they were locked down in the field for 3 weeks IIRC, They road marched 12 miles to the barracks every other day for showers and then marched the 12 miles back to the range. They eventually found the grenade at the range and we laughed and laughed until a Soldier in my Company tried to steal an M-9, then it was out turn to pay. But we were young and hard and after all, "pain is just weakness leaving the body"
1/11/2012 4:23:58 PM
Ok, from what Ive been told, all the missing gear was turned in for repairs but someone misplaced the paperwork.
1/11/2012 5:04:48 PM
That about figures... if true, new CO, new XO, new arms room officer, new supply sergeant, and new armorer. And if I was a general officer for a day, new CID commander for I corps for pulling the panic button and notifying the public about the Charlie Foxtrox. I remember back in the day when "misplacing" a sensitive item would get you Kowlolafoied for hours on the nearest telephone pole.
1/11/2012 8:20:24 PM
Originally Posted By Windustsearch:
NWCN just said it is $600,000 worth of gear. Someone replaced the lock on the arms room, when they got the new lock off and looked in, the gear was gone.
NWCN just said it is $600,000 worth of gear. Someone replaced the lock on the arms room, when they got the new lock off and looked in, the gear was gone.
Arms room locks are not something one can remove and swap (sign for the key) or take a bolt cutter to and cut off. Plus alarms.
I was told that the items were in a container, lock was cut on the container and off it went. Happened during the holidays and half day schedule, so seeing some schmuck out in a yard while you are driving by, one would think, sucks to be him as they hurry to beat the traffic at the gate.
1/12/2012 1:35:15 AM
Originally Posted By KalihiJack:
Arms room locks are not something one can remove and swap (sign for the key) or take a bolt cutter to and cut off. Plus alarms.
I was told that the items were in a container, lock was cut on the container and off it went. Happened during the holidays and half day schedule, so seeing some schmuck out in a yard while you are driving by, one would think, sucks to be him as they hurry to beat the traffic at the gate.
Originally Posted By Windustsearch:
NWCN just said it is $600,000 worth of gear. Someone replaced the lock on the arms room, when they got the new lock off and looked in, the gear was gone.
NWCN just said it is $600,000 worth of gear. Someone replaced the lock on the arms room, when they got the new lock off and looked in, the gear was gone.
Arms room locks are not something one can remove and swap (sign for the key) or take a bolt cutter to and cut off. Plus alarms.
I was told that the items were in a container, lock was cut on the container and off it went. Happened during the holidays and half day schedule, so seeing some schmuck out in a yard while you are driving by, one would think, sucks to be him as they hurry to beat the traffic at the gate.
Buddy of mine here at ALC if from that unit, he said they forgot to move the cage from the supply room to the arms room and everyone went on leave dunno if thats bad gouge or not.
1/12/2012 4:04:15 AM
So has the stuff been found or not?
1/12/2012 8:58:39 AM
Originally Posted By CrazyWhiteGuy:
Buddy of mine here at ALC is from that unit, he said they forgot to move the cage from the supply room to the arms room and everyone went on leave dunno if thats bad gouge or not.
Buddy of mine here at ALC is from that unit, he said they forgot to move the cage from the supply room to the arms room and everyone went on leave dunno if thats bad gouge or not.
Latest command and shaft meeting said that the items were taken from the Arms Room Office of Building 3215. Could see the above happening.
Originally Posted By Getnlwr:
So has the stuff been found or not?
So has the stuff been found or not?
Got look on the EE.
1/12/2012 7:05:13 PM
Originally Posted By Getnlwr:
So has the stuff been found or not?
So has the stuff been found or not?
Thats what I'm wondering, seems from this thread it could be back, or its still gone?
1/12/2012 7:20:26 PM
Originally Posted By Crazyhorse26:
That about figures... if true, new CO, new XO, new arms room officer, new supply sergeant, and new armorer. And if I was a general officer for a day, new CID commander for I corps for pulling the panic button and notifying the public about the Charlie Foxtrox. I remember back in the day when "misplacing" a sensitive item would get you Kowlolafoied for hours on the nearest telephone pole.
That about figures... if true, new CO, new XO, new arms room officer, new supply sergeant, and new armorer. And if I was a general officer for a day, new CID commander for I corps for pulling the panic button and notifying the public about the Charlie Foxtrox. I remember back in the day when "misplacing" a sensitive item would get you Kowlolafoied for hours on the nearest telephone pole.
The public would know soon enough anyway. Can't lock down 100+ Joes and keep it secret.
1/13/2012 12:02:35 AM
Originally Posted By KalihiJack:
Got look on the EE.
Originally Posted By Getnlwr:
So has the stuff been found or not?
So has the stuff been found or not?
Got look on the EE.
Thinking about posting a WTB ad...
1/13/2012 12:34:47 AM
I got a lead on some AN\PS-13's for cheap who's in?
P.S. I don't have a dog so no innocent animals will be harmed.
P.S. I don't have a dog so no innocent animals will be harmed.
1/13/2012 3:13:11 AM
Could really use a PVS 14.....
1/19/2012 12:24:38 AM
I got a call from CID because some asshole called them and said I was trying to sell an Eotech.
It would have been nice if they did their homework though, as I had posted pictures WITH the serial number in the for sale ad...
Grrrr...
Then I had to explain to my boss why, in the middle of installing a 6k$ radio into a state vehicle, I was getting a call from CID....
It would have been nice if they did their homework though, as I had posted pictures WITH the serial number in the for sale ad...
Grrrr...
Then I had to explain to my boss why, in the middle of installing a 6k$ radio into a state vehicle, I was getting a call from CID....
1/19/2012 1:23:37 AM
Originally Posted By Jparks29:
I got a call from CID because some asshole called them and said I was trying to sell an Eotech.
It would have been nice if they did their homework though, as I had posted pictures WITH the serial number in the for sale ad...
Grrrr...
Then I had to explain to my boss why, in the middle of installing a 6k$ radio into a state vehicle, I was getting a call from CID....
I got a call from CID because some asshole called them and said I was trying to sell an Eotech.
It would have been nice if they did their homework though, as I had posted pictures WITH the serial number in the for sale ad...
Grrrr...
Then I had to explain to my boss why, in the middle of installing a 6k$ radio into a state vehicle, I was getting a call from CID....
I call dibs on ammo
1/19/2012 2:00:13 AM
Originally Posted By Jparks29:
I got a call from CID because some asshole called them and said I was trying to sell an Eotech.
It would have been nice if they did their homework though, as I had posted pictures WITH the serial number in the for sale ad...
Grrrr...
Then I had to explain to my boss why, in the middle of installing a 6k$ radio into a state vehicle, I was getting a call from CID....
I got a call from CID because some asshole called them and said I was trying to sell an Eotech.
It would have been nice if they did their homework though, as I had posted pictures WITH the serial number in the for sale ad...
Grrrr...
Then I had to explain to my boss why, in the middle of installing a 6k$ radio into a state vehicle, I was getting a call from CID....
Wow, someone wants a reward
2/17/2012 12:38:59 AM
Looks like they caught the guy. from KOMO News Article
"JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – An Army private has been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $600,000 worth of sensitive military equipment that put an entire infantry company on lockdown last month.
Pvt. Nicholas A. Solt, 22, of Slatington, Pa., has been charged and has been placed in confinement in connection with the recent theft from the 4th Stryker Brigade."
Solt has been charged with:
• Selling optical and targeting equipment of a value more then $500 without proper authority, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 108
• Larceny of military property, of a value of more than $500, a violation of UCMJ Article 121
• Unlawfully enter a government building with the intent to commit a criminal offense, a violation of UCMJ Article 130
• Wrongfully communicate a threat to kill an individual, a violation of UCMJ Article 134
• Violation of a general order wrongfully possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia, a violation of UCMJ Article 92
• Wrongfully possess anabolic steroids, a violation of UCMJ Article 112a
If convicted on all charges, Solt faces 59 years of confinement, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge.
His Facebook Page
"JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – An Army private has been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $600,000 worth of sensitive military equipment that put an entire infantry company on lockdown last month.
Pvt. Nicholas A. Solt, 22, of Slatington, Pa., has been charged and has been placed in confinement in connection with the recent theft from the 4th Stryker Brigade."
Solt has been charged with:
• Selling optical and targeting equipment of a value more then $500 without proper authority, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 108
• Larceny of military property, of a value of more than $500, a violation of UCMJ Article 121
• Unlawfully enter a government building with the intent to commit a criminal offense, a violation of UCMJ Article 130
• Wrongfully communicate a threat to kill an individual, a violation of UCMJ Article 134
• Violation of a general order wrongfully possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia, a violation of UCMJ Article 92
• Wrongfully possess anabolic steroids, a violation of UCMJ Article 112a
If convicted on all charges, Solt faces 59 years of confinement, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge.
His Facebook Page
2/17/2012 1:25:56 AM
Originally Posted By Lokjell:
Looks like they caught the guy. from KOMO News Article
"JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – An Army private has been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $600,000 worth of sensitive military equipment that put an entire infantry company on lockdown last month.
Pvt. Nicholas A. Solt, 22, of Slatington, Pa., has been charged and has been placed in confinement in connection with the recent theft from the 4th Stryker Brigade."
Solt has been charged with:
• Selling optical and targeting equipment of a value more then $500 without proper authority, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 108
• Larceny of military property, of a value of more than $500, a violation of UCMJ Article 121
• Unlawfully enter a government building with the intent to commit a criminal offense, a violation of UCMJ Article 130
• Wrongfully communicate a threat to kill an individual, a violation of UCMJ Article 134
• Violation of a general order wrongfully possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia, a violation of UCMJ Article 92
• Wrongfully possess anabolic steroids, a violation of UCMJ Article 112a
If convicted on all charges, Solt faces 59 years of confinement, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge.
His Facebook Page
Looks like they caught the guy. from KOMO News Article
"JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – An Army private has been arrested in connection with the theft of more than $600,000 worth of sensitive military equipment that put an entire infantry company on lockdown last month.
Pvt. Nicholas A. Solt, 22, of Slatington, Pa., has been charged and has been placed in confinement in connection with the recent theft from the 4th Stryker Brigade."
Solt has been charged with:
• Selling optical and targeting equipment of a value more then $500 without proper authority, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 108
• Larceny of military property, of a value of more than $500, a violation of UCMJ Article 121
• Unlawfully enter a government building with the intent to commit a criminal offense, a violation of UCMJ Article 130
• Wrongfully communicate a threat to kill an individual, a violation of UCMJ Article 134
• Violation of a general order wrongfully possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia, a violation of UCMJ Article 92
• Wrongfully possess anabolic steroids, a violation of UCMJ Article 112a
If convicted on all charges, Solt faces 59 years of confinement, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge.
His Facebook Page
Looks like the idiot really kept digging when he should have stopped.
2/19/2012 2:23:53 PM
"Law enforcement agents recovered the equipment in mid-January at residences outside the base."
Residences? Sounds like he either already sold some of it pretty quickly, or had accomplices.
Residences? Sounds like he either already sold some of it pretty quickly, or had accomplices.
2/22/2012 5:21:35 AM
Are we going to group buy this future colostomy patient a 55 gallon drum of buttfuck grease?
Ya know he gave himself the shaft.
Ya know he gave himself the shaft.
2/22/2012 2:12:52 PM
Originally Posted By DocBull:
Are we going to group buy this future colostomy patient a 55 gallon drum of buttfuck grease?
Ya know he gave himself the shaft.
Are we going to group buy this future colostomy patient a 55 gallon drum of buttfuck grease?
Ya know he gave himself the shaft.
You're avatar...
2/22/2012 6:07:51 PM
Originally Posted By DocBull:
Are we going to group buy this future colostomy patient a 55 gallon drum of buttfuck grease?
Ya know he gave himself the shaft.
Are we going to group buy this future colostomy patient a 55 gallon drum of buttfuck grease?
Ya know he gave himself the shaft.
I have a 5 gal bucket of GAA at my M.P.
