Accountablility for weapons and ammunition - Did your unit ever loose any?

The only thing we ever lost was our sanity. Luckily it wasn't required.

Hell no! Of course, I was running the armory in Minot, so I kept pretty damn good records of everything in my building!

During my time as S3 I had all manner of items "returned" to me 9mm, M16, Gas Masks, Computers... fortunately we were able to return them to those that had lost them.

An m16 was lost on training exercise in Germany. Post was closed for 3 days. No one could go home including married soldiers. Rifle was turned in by German national. Soldier who lost it was battalion commanders driver.

When I was in Afghanistan my NG platoon would send a couple guys to the SLIC yard to pick up our mail. Without fail one of the AD guys there would pick on us about our uniforms. "I saw one of your guys walking with a toothpick in his mouth" kind of thing. Somehow they lost a laptop and an M4 during an incoming alarm. I would have never said anything, but the next time we got mail this smart mouthed PFC we had, goes, "Ain't you guys the ones that lost the M4?" We never heard any crap from those guys again.

All units need to conduct sensitive items check before moving.

Never had a missing weapon and we normally used all the ammunition but have has NVGs and Optics unaccounted for which led to a seven day lock down at Battalion

My last ship.. an full auto blonde wood stock M-14 was stolen.. boy oh boy that was a fun investigation!!
Short story:
Weapons DIVO gave to midshipman to return to bridge in weapons locker after sea and anchor detail. Midshipman didn't find anyone to give to so he left it on QM chart table unattended. About a week goes by and all these daily weapons counts it is discovered that the weapon is no longer in the locker.

On August 23, 1968, I was TDY from 1st SFG(A) to CCN MACVSOG, north of Marble Mtn., we were over-run, without further detail, I lost a .38 S&W, I filed a report with the S-2 and S-3, when I got back to my duty station, on Okinawa, I filed a report with the Det. CO. I got chewed out, felt 2" tall, that was it. Different time and place. Today, all hell would be let loose, and I'd still be paying.

I remember getting our Bees qualified on Ma Duce way back when. There was a paranoia about ammo getting away so we had to scoop up and count the brass back into the cans. We had to shoot full cans. The links were just scooped up but not counted. The story was it made DRMOs job easier. Riiiiggghhhhtttt....