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Contrary to your expectations...

By The Armorer on September 8, 2006 | | Comments (7)

...this is *not* the back 40 at the Castle. Nor does it represent an unloading of the basement. Really. Honest.

Marines from B Company's 3rd Platoon stand next to one of the many weapons' caches they dug from the ground during Operation Rubicon in Mushin, Iraq, west of Habbaniyah. The Recon Marines unearthed hundreds of mortars, artillery shells, rifles, machines guns, ammunition and improvised explosive device-making materials. Marines found so many caches, they said they could barely make it 100 meters before discovering another buried weapons' site.

Marines from B Company's 3rd Platoon stand next to one of the many weapons' caches they dug from the ground during Operation Rubicon in Mushin, Iraq, west of Habbaniyah. The Recon Marines unearthed hundreds of mortars, artillery shells, rifles, machines guns, ammunition and improvised explosive device-making materials. Marines found so many caches, they said they could barely make it 100 meters before discovering another buried weapons' site.

Just sayin'. Really, Lee, it ain't. (That last is for my local Police Chief and fellow-Rotarian)

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By J-P on September 8, 2006 9:12 AM
I don't know what is stranger - the fact that those guys have SO many weapons, or the fact that they are in the ground for our boys to find so easily. I mean I guess I would have imagined, based on terrorist rhetoric, that those weapons might have actually been in the hands of fighting men.
 
By hdw on September 8, 2006 9:50 AM
It never occurred to me that this was from the Castle. I just figured you were cleaning out your car.
 
By seawitch on September 8, 2006 11:33 AM
hdw, my thoughts as well!
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 8, 2006 11:42 AM
Well, there was the time, at band camp, er, the front gate, where I was stopped for random searching, and, when I opened the trunk, I said, like, um, y'know, there's, um, uh, well, like, uh, 1,000 rounds of 7.62x54 in there, just, um, so y'know, um'kay?
 
By AFSister on September 8, 2006 12:07 PM
buwhahahahahaa!! Just so you know, um.... there's like... a lot of ammo in my car. That's funny, John.
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2006 2:38 AM
1. All prudent citizens of a republic should have something like that squirrelled away. 2. 1,000 rounds of 7.62x54? I'm sure yours doesn't work, but did you,ah, know somebody who had a functional Degtyarev?
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 9, 2006 5:52 AM
JTG, I have a whole stable of Mosins (just about all styles and flavors) and both an SVT rifle and carbine. Plenty of things to push those bullets downrange.
 
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