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Army Investigating Who Sent 50 Guns From Afghanist
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Army Investigating Who Sent 50 Guns From Afghanistan
Colorado National Guard Linked To Foreign Gun Shipment
Posted: 5:44 a.m. MDT September 18, 2002
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Army is reportedly investigating whether soldiers, including members of the Colorado National Guard, illegally sent foreign weapons home from Afghanistan.
U.S. Customs agents found about 50 guns in shipping containers at Dover Air Force Base, Del., in late August, Marc Raimondi, spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, told The Gazette of Colorado Springs in Wednesday's editions.
At least some of the weapons were found in containers belonging to members of Pueblo-based Bravo Company of 5th Battalion/19th Special Forces Group, the newspaper reported, citing anonymous Army sources.
The Bravo Company, part of the Colorado National Guard, has been in Afghanistan since last fall. Some of its roughly 60 soldiers have returned to the United States.
After a deployment, soldiers typically send back their gear and personal items in large containers on Air Force cargo planes. Every container coming from Afghanistan is searched, Raimondi said.
Soldiers can bring foreign weapons back for training and as keepsakes but they must get their commanders' approval and fill out paperwork.
Raimondi declined to say what paperwork the soldiers completed. He would only say the investigation into whether proper procedures were followed is continuing.
"It could be a paper trail. It could be criminality," he said. "That's what the investigation is for."
The Criminal Investigation Command is conducting the investigation along with Customs and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/den/news/stories/news-167336420020918-060921.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Colorado National Guard Linked To Foreign Gun Shipment
Posted: 5:44 a.m. MDT September 18, 2002
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Army is reportedly investigating whether soldiers, including members of the Colorado National Guard, illegally sent foreign weapons home from Afghanistan.
U.S. Customs agents found about 50 guns in shipping containers at Dover Air Force Base, Del., in late August, Marc Raimondi, spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, told The Gazette of Colorado Springs in Wednesday's editions.
At least some of the weapons were found in containers belonging to members of Pueblo-based Bravo Company of 5th Battalion/19th Special Forces Group, the newspaper reported, citing anonymous Army sources.
The Bravo Company, part of the Colorado National Guard, has been in Afghanistan since last fall. Some of its roughly 60 soldiers have returned to the United States.
After a deployment, soldiers typically send back their gear and personal items in large containers on Air Force cargo planes. Every container coming from Afghanistan is searched, Raimondi said.
Soldiers can bring foreign weapons back for training and as keepsakes but they must get their commanders' approval and fill out paperwork.
Raimondi declined to say what paperwork the soldiers completed. He would only say the investigation into whether proper procedures were followed is continuing.
"It could be a paper trail. It could be criminality," he said. "That's what the investigation is for."
The Criminal Investigation Command is conducting the investigation along with Customs and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/den/news/stories/news-167336420020918-060921.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
I would like to know what kind of "foreign weapons" were shipped.
Does anybody remember the story of a soldier sending back home a Jeep piece by piece or was that a fairy tale? I think it was the Korean War.
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