Pffffffffftttt!!!!! Yeah, there are "terrorists" out there, sure!!!!
Get your heads out your a****, 'murkns!!!!!
Actually, at the rate this economy is going, we all might be seeing each other out in the proving grounds, huh?
Wait until you get a load of this read. I'll let you know when the outrage hits!
"Military cracks down on munitions scavengers near bases"
This sounds like GAZA or IRAQ, but it is the UNITED STATES, readers!!!!
"by Chelsea J. Carter, Associated Press | May 16, 2008
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. - Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape.
Behind the wheel was a suspected scrap metal thief who had been combing the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center for spent brass shell casings. His intrusion onto the base was the 12th time in six months that scavengers had inadvertently halted combat exercises.
Bombing ranges have become prime hunting grounds for so-called "scrappers," who are motivated by soaring commodity prices to take greater risks in their quest for brass, copper, and aluminum. The scavenging causes headaches for the military, which cannot patrol every inch of the remote bases where spent ammunition, shrapnel, and unexploded ordnance are easy to find.
Illegal scavenging of military munitions has long been an issue at military bases. But as metal prices have climbed in the past two years, scavengers have become more numerous, more audacious, and more sophisticated.
After he was spotted by troops last December, the pickup truck driver barreled directly at a Marine, who fired five shots at the vehicle. The vehicle swerved, flipped over, and spilled hundreds of dollars in collected metal. The driver was taken by helicopter to a hospital and later charged with attempted murder.
That's what did it for me. Sig Heil!
The military loses hundreds of thousands of dollars every time it is forced to halt training. And when scrappers make off with unexploded ordnance, the public is at risk.
Oh, so THAT'S where the "homegrown terrorist" is going to GET the MATERIALS, 'eh?
Are you FINALLY CONVINCED that this "war on terror" is a FRAUD, readers?!?
The Pentagon estimates that up to 10 percent of all ordnance - such as bombs, missiles, and grenades - fails to explode on impact. Some of it is left behind in training areas.
Ahem.
Are you FINALLY CONVINCED that this "war on terror" is a FRAUD, readers?!?
In May 2007, two suspected scrappers removed a Vietnam-era missile from the Twentynine Palms base. It later exploded in their Barstow home, killing both men and destroying the apartment. Earlier this year, two workers were injured at a Raleigh, N.C., recycling plant when ordnance suspected of coming from nearby Fort Bragg exploded.
"The expense we have to go through, not just to guard against the loss of training time, but the chance of this hazardous material getting out into the public, is enormous," said Ronald Pearce, who oversees a training range in Yuma, Ariz., where the Marines and Navy practice aerial assaults. "You just can't look the other way and condone it."
Pffft! MORE "EXPENSE" and WASTED $$$$!!!
Wanna really save $$$?
SHUT DOWN THIS ABOMINABLE WAR MACHINE!!!!
After meeting with the Defense Department last month, the Institute of Scrap Recycling urged its members to stop accepting military scrap without knowing the source of the material. It also recommended that the military create a system to account for the material it uses."
What, when their is $$$$$ to be made?
Tell it to the WAR-PROFITEERING WAR CONTRACTORS first, will ya?
