Originally Posted By cplnorton3:
I almost wonder if it didn't serve in both SMU's.  

In 1998 it was turned over to the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) at Lexington KY from INSCOM.   It is there from Sept 1998 to Sept 2004.   The thing is I cannot find a mention that Lexington ever had a CID Division.   All I can find says CID was at Ft Knox and Campbell, but not Lexington.  So unless I just haven't found it yet, I really wonder if this correct.  

The other entry is equally weird.   In July 2005 it shows the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency turned it over to Anniston.   Well it seems the Cybersecurity Agency didn't form till years after 2005, maybe even as late as 2018.   I found where they initially were called the National Protection and Programs Directorate, but even that didn't form till 2007.   So I think this almost might be a clerical error.  Or at least that is my hunch.  

I've ran a lot of FOIAS and have been studying the Range Grade FOIAS coming out of the CMP and seen patterns.   So my hunch is whoever transcribed this over from the DODAAC sheet, made a clerical error on those two entries.  But I can't prove it till I can get the FOIA officer to re-run  the report and right now I'm having a hard time getting them to agree to that.  

I think I have a pretty good idea what the code should be from Sept 1998 to  July 2005, I just need to be able to re-run it to prove or disprove my theory.



But I'm still digging.  I love to research and this is a fun new research project.     :)

Originally Posted By badguybuster:
The Delta guy (GWOT guy) we trained with at Storm Mountain carried a Les Baer that had been re-worked by the unit armorer.   He still had the gun, it was still using the original barrel.  He said it had about 25,000 rds on it!

Originally Posted By cplnorton3:
I haven't had time to post it.  But I plan to one of these days in great detail.  

But the Green Frame Vickers Delta M1911 from his book (that was pictured earlier in this post), I found a CMP Range Grade pistol with the exact same FOIA as his.  I ran a FOIA on his serial and that is how I figured out the FOIAS were the same.  Same dates, shame shipments, etc.    

After I found it all out, I sent all the research over to Larry Vicker's and he was kind enough to look it over and respond.  

When I get a little more time I will start a new thread and lay out all the research, but here is a little teaser info.  His thumbs up meant a lot to me.   It's probably about the best provenance you can get for something like this.    

Btw I did ask him if it was ok if I could show our conversation and he gave me permission to post it.   His hope was like mine, maybe if this research becomes more well known, we might find some pistols to study.

https://imgur.com/7QVSNCq

https://imgur.com/zlVoftK

https://imgur.com/IdahDhi

Originally Posted By cplnorton3:
I haven't had time to post it.  But I plan to one of these days in great detail.  

But the Green Frame Vickers Delta M1911 from his book (that was pictured earlier in this post), I found a CMP Range Grade pistol with the exact same FOIA as his.  I ran a FOIA on his serial and that is how I figured out the FOIAS were the same.  Same dates, shame shipments, etc.    

After I found it all out, I sent all the research over to Larry Vicker's and he was kind enough to look it over and respond.  

When I get a little more time I will start a new thread and lay out all the research, but here is a little teaser info.  His thumbs up meant a lot to me.   It's probably about the best provenance you can get for something like this.    

Btw I did ask him if it was ok if I could show our conversation and he gave me permission to post it.   His hope was like mine, maybe if this research becomes more well known, we might find some pistols to study.

https://imgur.com/7QVSNCq

https://imgur.com/zlVoftK

https://imgur.com/IdahDhi

Originally Posted By cplnorton3:
I haven't had time to post it.  But I plan to one of these days in great detail.  

But the Green Frame Vickers Delta M1911 from his book (that was pictured earlier in this post), I found a CMP Range Grade pistol with the exact same FOIA as his.  I ran a FOIA on his serial and that is how I figured out the FOIAS were the same.  Same dates, shame shipments, etc.    

After I found it all out, I sent all the research over to Larry Vicker's and he was kind enough to look it over and respond.  

When I get a little more time I will start a new thread and lay out all the research, but here is a little teaser info.  His thumbs up meant a lot to me.   It's probably about the best provenance you can get for something like this.    

Btw I did ask him if it was ok if I could show our conversation and he gave me permission to post it.   His hope was like mine, maybe if this research becomes more well known, we might find some pistols to study.

https://imgur.com/7QVSNCq

https://imgur.com/zlVoftK

https://imgur.com/IdahDhi