Thousands of $s worth of high-grade night-vision equipment missing from the Wash. St. base

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http://gantdaily.com/2012/01/09/night-vision-gear-stolen-from-washington-state-army-base/
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A 100-member infantry company was placed on lockdown last week after thousands of dollars worth of high-grade night-vision equipment went missing from the Washington state U.S. Army base.

The equipment included rifle scopes and night-vision goggles, the Seattle Times reported. Maj. Chris Ophardt, a spokesman with Joint Base Lewis-McChord, told the newspaper the equipment alone is not dangerous to the public, but it could be in the hands of a trained person.

The soldiers under investigation serve in the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.

The troops were told last Wednesday that they could not leave the base without an escort, and they cannot email or talk on the telephone with anyone outside the base, according to the Seattle Times article.

The Army is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to recovery of the missing equipment
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[EC]

1. I lay odds that it was

one of the back woods militias with a member or two inside.

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2. Good bet

Someone may be making a lot of money selling this stuff.
Maybe they should do an inventory at all bases

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3. Seriously, this is news worthy?

Not to diss your post, but let's see how big a news story is in the MSM. I'll bet it gets some attention; like way more than any of the following.

Didn't Rummy admit right before 9/11 that the pentagon had lost track of a trillion dollars in expenditures? Didn't they go on to misplace $9 billion in cash from the C130 cash cows that landed in in Iraq while the "shock and awe" was still hanging in the air? And didn't the Pentagon admit, also around 9/11, that DOD had identified some amount in the billions of fraudulent personal purchases on DOD issued charges?

And as for equipment mishaps, whatever happened to the missing nuclear warheads that were "mistakenly" loaded on to military transports thanks to multiple security protocol breaches?

Nothing to see here.