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California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle
« on: March 18, 2024, 12:10:04 pm »
California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle
By Irene Loewenson
 Friday, Mar 15
 
A Marine fires an M110 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in May 2023. (Cpl. Adam Henke/Marine Corps)
A sniper rifle went missing on March 8 at a Marine base in California.

Battalion Landing Team 1/5, the ground combat element of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, reported an M110 semi-automatic sniper system unaccounted for “following a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle movement” at Camp Pendleton, California, Marine spokesman Capt. Brian Tuthill told Marine Corps Times in an emailed statement Thursday.


The unit immediately began searching the rifle along the truck’s route and elsewhere on the base, according to Tuthill. More Marines from the battalion — 1st Battalion, 5th Marines — helped out with the search in the next two days.

But the rifle still is missing, Tuthill said.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/03/15/california-marine-unit-california-loses-m110-sniper-rifle/
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Re: California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2024, 01:00:35 pm »
'It fell off the truck'....
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Re: California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2024, 01:09:21 pm »
Were they boating at the time?
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2024, 01:12:14 pm »
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Re: California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2024, 02:24:22 pm »
Things must be really  show there if everybody has their panties all in a wad over ONE missing rifle that  can be replaced by going to a gun shop  and buying the replacement.

It's a freaking rifle,not a nuclear missle!
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Re: California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2024, 02:41:13 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on March 18, 2024, 02:24:22 pm
Things must be really  show there if everybody has their panties all in a wad over ONE missing rifle that  can be replaced by going to a gun shop  and buying the replacement.

It's a freaking rifle,not a nuclear missile!

It's not the rifle but its attached optics, which are integrated with all kinds of ground and airborne targeting platforms and are thus classified.  Plus accountability, and all that.  Sucks to be the Captain of that company...he signed for it and will have to pay for the loss if they can't find it.  And his career is probably over too.
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Re: California Marine unit loses M110 sniper rifle
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2024, 04:28:07 pm »
Quote from: Timber Rattler on March 20, 2024, 02:41:13 pm
It's not the rifle but its attached optics, which are integrated with all kinds of ground and airborne targeting platforms and are thus classified. Plus accountability, and all that.  Sucks to be the Captain of that company...he signed for it and will have to pay for the loss if they can't find it.  And his career is probably over too.

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Thanks for the update. I had no idea. I come from a simpler time,when classes were held on throwing spears and using  rocks in sling shots.
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