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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Which is probably a good thing since you'd have probably been on the receiving end of similar "good stuff".
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All to true! But one of the things that I enjoyed about service in Germany was when the Ammo Supply Point had lots expired, and you had a bored colonel or two.
Stateside, expired ammo is always shipped back to the depot to be either reworked or disposed of. Germany (and Korea) were the only two locations that went with the third option of allowing the troops to expend the ammo downrange. It wasn't done often (depends on how penny-pinching Congress was that year, I guess). But I've had the chance to fire 105mm APDS, HEP, Beehive and WP; Dragon ATGM and even expend Bangalore Torpedoes, and C-4 and one one glorious day, a 50kg cratering charge!!!
When we converted to M-1, there was a lot of hope in the squadron that we would be allowed to empty the ASP of all the old M-60A3 ammo...we only got to fire a APDS lot....the rest was shipped to units still using the ole Beast.