Missing Rifles? I'll show you missing rifles

[bhansen]

Just read a snippet in the Marine Corps Times where a battalion commander and SgtMaj from the 6th Marines were relieved of command. Seems there are 2(two) missing rifles and so far "they" can't find them......Only 2?......A number of years ago at the Edison Range (Camp Pendleton) a recruit platoon was sleeping peacefully when all of a sudden the DI comes bursting into squad bay and rousts all the recruits out of the rack.....There was a problem.....It seems a 1st Lt and the "company gunny" were there to remove ALL the M16s the recruits were using. The 1st Lt showed the DI all the paperwork for the removal.....I don't remember the definitive reason for the removal.... but a working party was set up and all the rifles were put into a military vehicle.....The Lt and the gunny drove off.....The rifles were never seen again.....No 1st Lt or gunny, no nothing.....Paperwork was bogus, bogus!.....Absolutely no due diligence took place.....NONE!.....If the DI would have called someone IE the OD or someone for conformation this would not have happened. The audacity of this caused this theft to succeed

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[FoxtrotOscar]

For some reason I've never heard of this happening...

Dates and source please...

[bhansen]

Can't give exact dates but this happened late 60s early 70s....I've tried to check in archives (google etc) to no avail. I've talked to a couple of other Marines of the time period and they don't remember this either. I should have done "due diligence"myself before I posted this.....I apoligize and will be more careful......this is not a defense

[advanced]

I was in the MC back then and never heard of this either. I was with the 1st MarDiv in Vietnam with the 5th Marines. The 3rd MarDiv was also in the Nam during the late 60's.

The 6th Marines were in the 2nd Mar Div during that time at LeJeune and wouldn't have been at Pendleton, or at least I never heard of it.