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Originally Posted by Graebarde
Sort of like the engineer company that buried two containers of excess along with a jeep that wasn't on the books.
We always had excess to hide, and I imagine most units did too. And the IG was not a bunch of duds either, as they had played hide the thimble games themselves in previous assignments.
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Grae,
It reminds me of what a friend who was in a local militia regiment (Seaforth Highlanders) said, that when their unit was converted to light infantry and gave up their mortar section, they kept an 81mm tube (just "in case") and stored it with the signals equipment listed as a "signaling device". Further, they had C9 SAWs (FN Minimis) that had been stricken from the records as worn out but completely rebuilt, and several FN C1A1s (FALs) weren't passed along when they upgraded to C7s (AR-15s).
Tony