Joe D. -> RE: Question about a movie (4/14/2010 12:00:17 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Doggie ... Legal weapons could be shipped home as war souveniers, including U.S. weapons that were recaptured from the enemy. Once an M-1 was written off, it stayed written off. That is no more. Modern soldiers are no longer allowed to keep any sort of souveniers from foreign wars, as it might offend the people who are trying to kill them. After Desert Storm, there was so much unexploded ordnance abt that our superiors were concerned soldiers would attempt to bring them home as souveniers, and sure enough, some did, sometimes w/disasterous results. Hence, UCMJ was threatened against any soldier bringing back anything more lethal than a bayonet. Otherwise, the battlefield was a treasure-trove of Vietnam vintage Soviet-made weapons; esp. popular was the Makarov pistol: I found an entire crate of brand new Markarov's on the "Highway to Hell" that made it's way back to the 2nd AD museum. In fact, many heavy enemy vehicles were tagged by different units for shipment home to their respective post museums: in fact, our curator had herself a field day.
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