The rifles DID NOT follow Maj. Levin from duty station to duty station. John is correct that they were stored in a basement in Dayton, Ohio. Will Levin's next duty station was Eglin AFB in Florida and from there he was stationed in Los Angeles, CA where he ultimately retired from the Air Force. The rifles were shipped from Dayton to Los Angeles. Only one minor correction, the basement was the basement of his cousin, not brother, who was in the wine business in Dayton. As for wood shavings, I have never seen any. I'm not saying that some crates opened previously didn't have wood shavings. The two crates that I've seen opened, and quite a few rifles that I've seen that still had cosmolineicon and "straw" on them from crates that had been opened in previous years, certainly had no wood shavings.