Vets and their M16's

[browningautorifle]

I didn't figure you guys would miss the machete. Seemed I was right.

[BEAR]

"Pilfered" is such an incriminating word. I prefer to believe that you simply liberated the machete from Ft. Wainwright to return it to Ft. Lewis but it got stuck somewhere in between.

[browningautorifle]

Well, if someone involved deems it necessary to the TO&E for Ft Wainwright, and send them over to collect it...I'll do up a BBQ feed and hand it over before sending them off again. Maybe there'll be time for a couple stories...?

[Frederick303]

It is interesting to note that many vets I have known, including my father , while very honest men, did not think that extended to government property while on duty if such an act would not result in a soldier being put out.

best stated that all such "reallocations of underutilized resources" were viewed as "long term non-interest bearing loans".

[BEAR]

Hi...my name is BEAR....I am also a reallocator of military resources.....I too, liberated a machete from my platoon's ahkio....and a shell deflector for left handed shooters.....oh yeah, and an early 20 round waffle magazine from the arms room....and I have WW2 e-tool I wuz issued. I've been a baaaaaad boy.

[browningautorifle]

ahkio

There's a term I'd forgotten!! Haven't heard that since then... Are we far enough off topic yet? Neat thing is, Bear...we were probably standing within a few feet of each other then...at some point.

[BEAR]

Sorry Garrett, didn't mean to hijack.

Neat thing is, Bear...we were probably standing within a few feet of each other then...at some point.

Very good possibility, Jim ..... I was the intelligent, good looking guy

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

and a shell deflector for left handed shooters.....oh yeah, and an early 20 round waffle magazine from the arms room.

I have been looking for both of those. Waffle mag for an early clone and the deflector for left handed reasons.

[Bob Womack]

As my dad was demobbed from the Navy in '46 his station was being closed as well. The station had somehow drawn way above their TO&E the number of mechanics tool kits. The station commander had the gang break up the kits into piles of each type of tool and the tool boxes. Each man who was being discharged was given his papers and sent down the line of items starting with a tool box and then filling it with one of each tool as he left the base. It was a great way to start a home toolkit.

Bob

[can14&]

One of my m16 is XM16E1 and the other is FSI M16A1