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Bring-backs?
Glock23Expert
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Did any of you Gulf War vets bring back any Iraqi trophies like flags, canteens, insignia, or the like?
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In all it fills up about 3 foot lockers or better.
I wasn't allowed to bring anythign back... It was damn near impossible to sneak anything by the Customs sweeties
Pat,
We were under the same orders. I boxed everything up and mailed it.
I mailed so much home that when we got on the plane all I had left with me was clothes.
quote:Originally posted by PATBUZZARD
I wasn't allowed to bring anythign back... It was damn near impossible to sneak anything by the Customs sweeties
Pat,
We were under the same orders. I boxed everything up and mailed it.
I mailed so much home that when we got on the plane all I had left with me was clothes.
Giterdone...you might want to think about editting your replies...you never know who may be reading this forum. I'll give you some time to do it yourself and then take care of it for you. Dont' want to see any ill harm come your way....
quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
quote:Originally posted by PATBUZZARD
I wasn't allowed to bring anythign back... It was damn near impossible to sneak anything by the Customs sweeties
Pat,
We were under the same orders. I boxed everything up and mailed it.
I mailed so much home that when we got on the plane all I had left with me was clothes.
Giterdone...you might want to think about editting your replies...you never know who may be reading this forum. I'll give you some time to do it yourself and then take care of it for you. Dont' want to see any ill harm come your way....
ECC, I don't have anything illeagal. My boxes that I sent home were inspected by an officer before I mailed them (this was a requirement before they were mailed). The only thing was we were not allowed to bring them home on our person.
I didn't get home any weaponry, or live ammo. Those were the NO-NO's that we were not allowed.
I can assure you that everything I have is perfectly leagal.
My CO actually recomended us to mail anything we wanted to keep as long as it was leagal.
General Order 1A
"(3) No weapon, munitions, or military article of equipment obtained or acquired by any means other than official issue may be retained for personal use or shipped out of the USCENTCOM AOR for personal retention or control."
This has been interpretted to include all military kit including weapons, ammo, TA50, web gear, nbc masks, uniforms, etc... IT SUCKS!! [:(!]
I understand, What I'm trying to say is that under current orders everyting you brought home would be NO GO.... pretty disgusting isn't it?
General Order 1A
"(3) No weapon, munitions, or military article of equipment obtained or acquired by any means other than official issue may be retained for personal use or shipped out of the USCENTCOM AOR for personal retention or control."
This has been interpretted to include all military kit including weapons, ammo, TA50, web gear, nbc masks, uniforms, etc... IT SUCKS!! [:(!]
When I was there, as long as it was not harmfull or hazardous we could box it up and mail it. We did have to have an officer inspect and sign that everything inside was OK to be shipped.
We got news before hand that we would not be allowed to take the stuff home on our person so I packed up alot of boxes to ship home.
Everything passed the required inspections and was waiting for me when I got back.
When I did get back I switched units to a unit that did not go, and I got asked to bring some of my stuff in for others to see.
Heck I had a Brigader General checking the stuff out and asking alot of questions about it. He was ammazed at alot of it and said I should never get rid of it. That I had alot of history in the stuff I brought back.
I never planed on getting rid of anything. I treat the stuff like my grandfather did with his things from WWII and Korea. Heck he had stuff from Peral Harbor that seemed like just scrapmetal but to him it was gold. It was pieces of ships and other things from the bombing.
Everything I have will be passed down in my family as part of our history.
quote:Originally posted by ECC
quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
quote:Originally posted by PATBUZZARD
I wasn't allowed to bring anythign back... It was damn near impossible to sneak anything by the Customs sweeties
Pat,
We were under the same orders. I boxed everything up and mailed it.
I mailed so much home that when we got on the plane all I had left with me was clothes.
Giterdone...you might want to think about editting your replies...you never know who may be reading this forum. I'll give you some time to do it yourself and then take care of it for you. Dont' want to see any ill harm come your way....
ECC, I don't have anything illeagal. My boxes that I sent home were inspected by an officer before I mailed them (this was a requirement before they were mailed). The only thing was we were not allowed to bring them home on our person.
I didn't get home any weaponry, or live ammo. Those were the NO-NO's that we were not allowed.
I can assure you that everything I have is perfectly leagal.
My CO actually recomended us to mail anything we wanted to keep as long as it was leagal.
Sounds good to me[:)] We were told not to bring stuff back...particularly "off of dead enemies". I kind of wish I had brought back more than I did. I only have a few tokens of my time there.
Pat...seems as if things are getting more and more strict/politically correct. I'm not sure how well I could handle todays military....
I brought home a box of matches taken from a EPOW, A officers personnel file I found in a APC, and a Republican Guard license tag I removed from the front of a blown up military vehicle. I even picked up several of those leaflets we dropped on them telling them to give up or die. As we were cleaning out the warehouses at Doha, I found a Kuwati Police badge. These are some of the goodies I was allowed to bring home. Also, since I took over our units arms room in the desert, I was allowed to carry home bayonets and knives that soldiers in our unit found. They could not personnally bring them back, but if they turned them in to me I was able to go through customs with them and seal them in a box and hand carry them home for the soldiers. When we arrived back, I just handed them back to whom they belonged.
[8D]
I brought home a box of matches taken from a EPOW, A officers personnel file I found in a APC, and a Republican Guard license tag I removed from the front of a blown up military vehicle. I even picked up several of those leaflets we dropped on them telling them to give up or die. As we were cleaning out the warehouses at Doha, I found a Kuwati Police badge. These are some of the goodies I was allowed to bring home. Also, since I took over our units arms room in the desert, I was allowed to carry home bayonets and knives that soldiers in our unit found. They could not personnally bring them back, but if they turned them in to me I was able to go through customs with them and seal them in a box and hand carry them home for the soldiers. When we arrived back, I just handed them back to whom they belonged.
[8D]
I took back 8 new bayonets still in the packing grease, a man-dress, one of those shamog's (table cloth they wear on their head), the donut they wear on top of the table cloth, propoganda posters distributed by our psy-ups guys, election posters from the first Iraqi national election and a jar of red honey made by the bees on Mount Sinjar.