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  • OMG! OMG! Huge Find of Unexploded WWII Ordnance Found In England! O

    From 1&2mdfmf@21:1/5 to bigdog on Sat Jun 5 21:29:46 2021
    XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.vietnam.veterans

    bigdog <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    On Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 2:23:33 PM UTC-4, Klaus Schadenfreude
    wrote:
    An Air Force Civil Engineering Squadron in the United Kingdom
    uncovered the largest-ever haul of unexploded World War II ordnance
    on record for a U.S. engineer regiment.

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/air-force-wwii-ordnance-record-largest-u
    nexploded-haul

    The 48th Civil Engineering Squadron in April recovered a total of 370
    .50-caliber rounds from a construction site at the Royal Air Force
    (RAF) Lakenheath station, where construction on a new airport was set
    to begin.

    Good thing they had experts over there to deal with it! Why, the
    entire base might have been destroyed!

    I'm sure it was just days away before those rounds began firing
    spontaneously and killiing everyone within a half mile radius.

    We used to bury that shit so we wouldn't have to count every fucking round
    and fill out three forms explaining why we didn't expend it in order to
    turn it back into the armory.

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  • From Cpl 2111@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 6 02:09:03 2021
    XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.vietnam.veterans

    In article <[email protected]>
    "1&2mdfmf" <[email protected]> wrote:

    bigdog <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    On Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 2:23:33 PM UTC-4, Klaus Schadenfreude
    wrote:
    An Air Force Civil Engineering Squadron in the United Kingdom
    uncovered the largest-ever haul of unexploded World War II ordnance
    on record for a U.S. engineer regiment.

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/air-force-wwii-ordnance-record-largest-u
    nexploded-haul

    The 48th Civil Engineering Squadron in April recovered a total of 370
    .50-caliber rounds from a construction site at the Royal Air Force
    (RAF) Lakenheath station, where construction on a new airport was set
    to begin.

    Good thing they had experts over there to deal with it! Why, the
    entire base might have been destroyed!

    I'm sure it was just days away before those rounds began firing spontaneously and killiing everyone within a half mile radius.

    We used to bury that shit so we wouldn't have to count every fucking round and fill out three forms explaining why we didn't expend it in order to
    turn it back into the armory.

    Imagine having to count all the unexpended ammo from a 40 man
    platoon or an infantry company of three platoons. Use your head
    and your E Tool first!

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