05-10-2014, 12:16 PM
Guys:
The article is primed to be debunked. Anyone who has dealt with ammunition planning, forecasting, and storage knows it is a lie. Also, the military would not just destroy billions of dollars of useful Class V. Not too many years ago we were still drawing and using various types of .50 cal ammunition from the mid to late 1950's. If the ammunition has been tested and found safe to use, it will be stored until someone who has an authorization for that DODIC requests it and uses it.
The DoD will destroy items that have been found to have degraded to the point where they are dangerous to use. Much of this stuff is probably obsolete ordinance that we didn't sell to another country.
I think this article is 95% a lie and 5% half truth.
LR1955
The article is primed to be debunked. Anyone who has dealt with ammunition planning, forecasting, and storage knows it is a lie. Also, the military would not just destroy billions of dollars of useful Class V. Not too many years ago we were still drawing and using various types of .50 cal ammunition from the mid to late 1950's. If the ammunition has been tested and found safe to use, it will be stored until someone who has an authorization for that DODIC requests it and uses it.
The DoD will destroy items that have been found to have degraded to the point where they are dangerous to use. Much of this stuff is probably obsolete ordinance that we didn't sell to another country.
I think this article is 95% a lie and 5% half truth.
LR1955