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News & Current Events Mar 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM

A US Marine is detained after TSA finds a live 25 mm explosive round in his checked bag

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A US Marine is detained after TSA finds a live 25 mm explosive round in his checked bag
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A US Marine is detained after TSA finds a live 25 mm explosive round in his checked bag
Police in California say a U.S. Marine has been detained at Palm Springs International Airport after Transportation Security Administration personnel found a live explosive round in his checked bag.
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AKsuited1934 Mar 31, 2026 +794
See this is why we have 2 hour long safety stand downs before every 4th of July with each PowerPoint slide being dumber than the last. There was one slide with a propane tank on top of a grill with a big ass X over it. The speaker said “Do not stow your propane tanks on top of your grill.”
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Possible_Bee_4140 Mar 31, 2026 +94
As long as they don’t take away our crayons
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boomsers Mar 31, 2026 +37
They would never do that. How else would you sign your reenlistment paperwork?! ^which ^flavor ^is ^it?
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killerkadooogan Mar 31, 2026 +12
Every year I'm reminded of the guy who decided to pick up a lit mortar and put it on his head...
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Life_Without_Lemon Mar 31, 2026 +68
Probably a reason why it made it to the PowerPoint. Someone probably done just that.
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Visual-Floor-7839 Mar 31, 2026 +67
That's what his first sentence said
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maparo Mar 31, 2026 +20
It's pretty clear that Life_Without_Lemon is a Marine…
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stater354 Mar 31, 2026 +6
That’s literally the point of the comment
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Bowman_van_Oort Mar 31, 2026 +5593
Anything to get out of being the first wave in Iran, huh?
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1877KlownsForKids Mar 31, 2026 +1323
Had a guy in my company get a profile against wearing body armor to duck a deployment. It happens.
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JadeddMillennial Mar 31, 2026 +1053
Better than getting blown apart by some Fibre optic FPV drone.
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bornlasttuesday Mar 31, 2026 +561
"what is your life worth soldier?"  "Life is precious and you can't put a price on it sir!"  "Bullshit maggot, it's worth a 20 thousand dollar drone, now drop down and give me 20 of your parents citizenship papers!"
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Bowman_van_Oort Mar 31, 2026 +300
"If you want to go to college, you *will* fire that missile at whatever coordinates I may or may not have properly researched beforehand!"
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StrategicCarry Mar 31, 2026 +349
"ChatGPT, what is that building?" "It appears to be an orphanage for blind children along with a pet adoption center." "No, it's actually an IRGC training facility." "My mistake, you are correct, valid military target."
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Vegetable_Permit_537 Mar 31, 2026 +186
Thats exactly how that shit works too.
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Wildeyewilly Mar 31, 2026 +31
You're so right for calling that out. Often times the information I'm offering is coming from sources that aren't entirely up to date -----Thanks for correcting me! I'll be sure to include this information for anyone else who asks
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raspberryharbour Mar 31, 2026 +62
You're a visionary fighting for freedom.You didn't just blow up those children—you annihilated them.
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Bowman_van_Oort Mar 31, 2026 +33
OBLIDDERATED LIKE NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE *trump-esque hand movements*
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chromepaperclip Mar 31, 2026 +11
*whips out tiny accordion
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skyxsteel Mar 31, 2026 +19
Theres a guy who makes videos to show how dumb LLMs are. One video he described an upside down cup and asked if it’s possible to pour liquid in it. I think two pretty much said it was a gag gift and they couldnt.
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TheWolfbytez Apr 1, 2026 +3
They're so incredibly dumb, even today. That's why I don't use them. Wake me up in 10 years when they're actually better. But also, f*** data centers. I genuinely couldn't care less about the AI revolution.
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_Panacea_ Mar 31, 2026 +15
You mean Grok
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Spajk Mar 31, 2026 +26
Those FPV drones are way less than 20k
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TheSpicyTomato22 Mar 31, 2026 +23
>a 20 thousand dollar drone More like 500 bucks
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AndrewCoja Mar 31, 2026 +13
Not the way Raytheon makes them
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IvankaPegsDaddy Mar 31, 2026 +13
But what about the way Iran makes them?
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Interesting-Music439 Apr 1, 2026 +3
about tree-fiddy
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RaveNdN Mar 31, 2026 +3
They are scarily cheaper than that.
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east4thstreet Mar 31, 2026 +222
What does "get a profile against wearing body armor" mean?
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_Panacea_ Mar 31, 2026 +211
To cook up a health reason that they can't be required to wear it.
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theknyte Mar 31, 2026 +101
Kevlar can cause allergic reactions to some people's skin. Just need to get a dermatologist's note, and you're golden!
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Thief_of_Sanity Mar 31, 2026 +123
Well shit. I'm allergic to bullets then.
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sinister_shoggoth Mar 31, 2026 +59
Lead does have well documented health risks.
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Justanotherturdle Mar 31, 2026 +33
my body simply rejects grenades
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Bagellord Mar 31, 2026 +25
If it's a legitimate grenade, your body will just shut it down
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Medium_Row529 Mar 31, 2026 +18
As it turns out my body would rather disintegrate itself than take in the radiation from a nuclear bomb.
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the_blackfish Mar 31, 2026 +4
A supersoldier!
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Annoying_Anomaly Mar 31, 2026 +4
Nades bounce right off this guy! That's great we're sending you to the front lines!
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Life_Without_Lemon Mar 31, 2026 +13
You kind of have to let the enemy know before they start shooting. If you don’t warn them beforehand then it kind of your own fault.
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maerun Mar 31, 2026 +4
Good news, the US government just rolled out its bullet immunotherapy agenda, your symptoms should subside after systemic exposure to increasing calibre rounds.
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skyxsteel Mar 31, 2026 +21
Me if they go crazy and decide to start wars on two fronts and they cast a wide net of draftees: Me: “ I’m bipolar and have ADHD.” Recruiter/draft board: “We can get you a waiver for that. It’s not a problem” Me: “Oh did I mention a past history of attempted suicide?” Recruiter: “Sir it says here you own firearms and you’ve owned them for several years. And you’re still alive” Me: “uhhhh….. i hate….. myself?” Recruiter: *sighs*
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two4six0won Mar 31, 2026 +14
The ADHD one is extra funny to me, since the AF gives their pilots adderall.
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HFentonMudd Mar 31, 2026 +18
So like one in ten pilots is suddenly "why are my thoughts so calm"?
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mostlyfire Mar 31, 2026 +5
As long as you don’t have flat feet
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Starfire013 Mar 31, 2026 +5
When I was in the army, we had a guy who got a dermatologist note for a skin allergy to grass. He got some teasing about it but it is actually a real thing. He got shuffled off to some admin role.
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zzazzzz Mar 31, 2026 +14
huh? how often are you required to wear kevlar on naked skin?
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blackadder1620 Mar 31, 2026 +27
You still have to touch it during all your bullshiting and running around.
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zzazzzz Mar 31, 2026 +7
but kevlar is not exposed to the ouside in any vest ive ever seen. its inside, and unless you actually get shot you will never even see the actual kevlar.
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throwaway1010202020 Mar 31, 2026 +40
Be real unfortunate to survive getting shot only to die from anaphylactic shock lmao
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Immature_adult_guy Mar 31, 2026 +14
My Dr. says that having lead bullets inside of my body would be detrimental to my health so I must be excused
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Mo-Cance Mar 31, 2026 +18
Yeah, but if you get shot, you don't want to get a rash.
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JefferyKendama Mar 31, 2026 +5
You’d hate for all that blood to get in the way of your incessant need to scratch at it
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Pacifist_Socialist Mar 31, 2026 +10
Military doctors and commanders aren't all the brightest but they know about malingering generally
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fondledbydolphins Mar 31, 2026 +5
"My nipples are sore" *points to heavily chaffed nipples*
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FoxtrotUniform36 Mar 31, 2026 +87
When you have an injury in the Military, you will get a "profile" that will restrict physical activity based on what the injury is i.e no running, lifting above a certain weight, etc So, this person had or faked an injury in which the profile stated the person could not wear body armor due to said injury which made the person non deployable
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Anal_Herschiser Mar 31, 2026 +26
When I read "profile" my first thought was the Alfred Hitchcock profile from the beginning of his movies. As in "if you look at my profile, clearly I cannot fit into body armor"
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_head_ Mar 31, 2026 +9
ICE has proven any profile can throw on a plate carrier. Though maybe not in a manner that is very effective. 
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Equivalent_Chipmunk Mar 31, 2026 +7
Lmao, I literally had my wife ask me about that recently since I'm ex-Army. She's like "these plate carriers don't seem to actually cover all that much", and I basically said "yeah, well they're not really made to fit fat people"
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Apg3410 Mar 31, 2026 +5
Thank you! That was my question
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Playful-Reporter5270 Mar 31, 2026 +4
When a soldier has a restriction they are given a profile of activities they can or cant do. Its called being on profile. 
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cakesalads Mar 31, 2026 +30
When I got to my second duty station, my PSG told me that he had a guy in Iraq with a sleeping profile, and another guy in Afghanistan with a profile where he had to wear gloves. I'd never heard of either before I HAVE heard the body armor profile for getting our of field exercises, though. Sucks to suck, you're on KP duty, private
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EclecticDreck Mar 31, 2026 +32
The glove one could be something like Raynaud's disease which, in addition to significant discomfort in the extremities when it is cold, can significantly increase the odds of cold weather injury. Body armor is even more reasonable. Any of a variety of injuries to the shoulders or neck would make wearing tens of pounds of the stuff a bad idea, for example. Not saying that people weren't faking, mind you - I'd fully believe that as well - just that there are some perfectly plausible reasons to end up with odd profiles such as "must wear gloves".
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cakesalads Mar 31, 2026 +23
There were actually a lot of body armor profiles in my second duty station. I was in a FSC in an infantry BN and everyone's back was fucked up. Several dudes in their early 20s with back surgery. Their NCOs hazed the f*** out of them, but you could see they were legitimately in pain
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Septopuss7 Mar 31, 2026 +14
Wow the military suddenly doesn't sound as nice as the movies make it seem...
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cakesalads Mar 31, 2026 +26
I'm permanently disfigured, but because it doesn't stop me from working, Pete wants to take my disability
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Septopuss7 Mar 31, 2026 +4
Kegsbreath should be-
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ohlookahipster Mar 31, 2026 +21
There’s a guy at my wife’s hospital who is a retired Ranger. He said it’s the most toxic “workplace” he’s ever worked everything from hazing to intentionally interfering with promotions. He’s known guys with 16 years under their belt who became a pariah overnight for having a profile for an injury or for missing a physical qualification. The whole “brotherhood” thing is a farce. They backstab constantly.
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EclecticDreck Mar 31, 2026 +8
If you suppose that the military is the most dysfunctional giant company in the world, and then grasp that it builds toxic culture by countless avenues and the people who stick around long enough to end up in charge are the ones that internalize the toxic culture, you'll get the gist. That so many people leave the military with lifelong disabilities is just one of the consequences of this kind of thing.
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butterfly_burps Mar 31, 2026 +17
We had a dude shit his pants during manifest for his first deployment. They made him sit in the back of the bird by himself on the way to Amsterdam, and since we couldn't leave the one room we were allowed into, he had to wear that shit til we got to Kuwait.
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StrategicCarry Mar 31, 2026 +13
"Profile says I can't wear body armor sarge." "Excellent, we're running low as it is, grab your bags and get on the plane."
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Extreme-Rub-1379 Mar 31, 2026 +11
A PA or Dr writes a profile. It's not like you could just go ask for one and get cart blanche.
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1877KlownsForKids Mar 31, 2026 +9
True, but it was incredibly conveniently timed and by a civilian doc from his home town. Guy was pretty worthless anyway, so he didn't miss him.
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Robot-Candy Mar 31, 2026 +4
Guy in my unit deployed to Iraq with us in 2003. 6 months in a general comes to get him out of our barracks. He had not been in the Army for 8 months. Some kind of a clerical error. He was flown home right away.
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ReasonableIron8712 Mar 31, 2026 +3
I had a guy in my platoon kill himself in order to not be sent back. No judgements here.
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StayBronzeFonz Mar 31, 2026 +126
Smarting than this dude in an adjacent basic training company back in ‘09. He got cold feet and decided the best way to get out was to shoot himself in the meaty part of his thigh. The round ricocheted inside his leg and came out his knee. Two straight soldiers wanted out while at our unit. Since it was right before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repelled they decided to make out in front of everyone. It backfired pretty h******* and they were paired up together for everything moving on. Two more guys decided to go AWOL. Asked to borrow a buddy’s truck to get groceries and then just left town. They found the vehicle owner’s checkbook in the glovebox and left a nice trail right to their hideout 1500 miles away. The ones that purposely popped hot during the piss test were pretty dumb too. Instead of quickly being chaptered the army dragged their feet and it took them almost two years to get out. One of them would’ve gotten out sooner had he stayed clean. They were monitored pretty much 24/7 until they did get dishonorably discharged which was a f****** pain in the ass when you were assigned to babysitting them on a Saturday. We weren’t about to deploy so I get that changes shit a little.
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unthused Mar 31, 2026 +49
The DADT guys story is hilarious, I can imagine how much shit they were getting for ages afterwards.
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Bowman_van_Oort Mar 31, 2026 +16
I wonder if they keep in touch
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serpentine91 Mar 31, 2026 +58
Plot twist: the two guys making out were gay all along and managed to cheat the system. 
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Scodo Mar 31, 2026 +29
The one who suggested it almost certainly was.
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VeryNoisyLizard Mar 31, 2026 +3
the second one is hillarious
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granitebuckeyes Mar 31, 2026 +42
Marine: “Oh no! This is totally going to ruin me being sent to fight in the war!” TSA: “What war?” Marine: “The World War.”
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SchnitzelTruck Mar 31, 2026 +37
Dumbasses sign up for one of the most active militaries in the world and are surprised they will see action.
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NotTJButCJ Mar 31, 2026 +23
To be fair, it sucks to join wanting to serve a country just to find out you’re serving a billionaires power fantasy
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SchnitzelTruck Mar 31, 2026 +8
Anyone with eyes halfway open has known that since the dawn of humanity.
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BellesCotes Mar 31, 2026 +5
Remember Corporal Maxwell Klinger from MASH? lol
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NoCharge8527 Mar 31, 2026 +22
MAGA is really drumming up pro-draft sentiment atm, so get ready for more of this. I can't wait for fed-up old dudes to start offing their commanding officers if the draft does actually happen. Older millenials have seen more bullshit and a lot of them have very little to lose.
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LateralThinkerer Mar 31, 2026 +15
Remember fragging? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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MrT735 Mar 31, 2026 +7
Just get a note saying you have bone spurs
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VirginiaLuthier Mar 31, 2026 +1301
Pretty soon they will be taking away our grenade launchers
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Unumbotte Mar 31, 2026 +286
It's tyranny, is what it is.
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Area51_Spurs Mar 31, 2026 +99
First they came for my 25mm explosive round I stuffed in my carry on and I said nothing…
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Hallow_Chef Mar 31, 2026 +16
Then they came for the one in butt…
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brad_at_work Mar 31, 2026 +7
I definitely came from the one in the butt.
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Cutter9792 Mar 31, 2026 +55
If they'd told me in 2012 they'd be taking away my grenade launcher, I would have thanked them. When I was in the Army Reserve, for some reason my weapon (M16A4) was issued with an underslung grenade launcher (M203). I say 'for some reason' because I was a radio/commo support specialist (25U), so I spent most of my time in the operations building/tent fiddling with equipment or manning the radio. I would likely never actually see direct combat if I *was* deployed, and even then I wouldn't likely be in a situation where having a grenade launcher would prove useful. And my unit (mostly combat engineers) were almost all assigned M4s without launchers, and some expressed jealousy that I was issued one instead of them. Buddy, I wish I could have just traded that thing away because it made hauling the already-cumbersome M16A4 around that much more annoying. The gun is front-heavy enough with its stupid all-metal quadrail handguard. Slapping 3 extra pounds/1.3 kg onto the bottom of it just made things worse. Also made it difficult to qualify with, since it was harder to stabilize when resting the big round *toob* on top of a sandbag when prone, not to mention unsupported prone/kneeling where the extra weight just made it more tiresome to hold in a shooting position for very long. I didn't even get a chance to shoot the damn thing with training rounds etc. And I was told that were I to actually be deployed, I wouldn't be taking that weapon with me, I'd probably get a regular A4 or even A2 once I was overseas. So it was utterly pointless. Eventually we got the 'new' M320 in our arsenal, which is a standalone launcher with a stock and pistol grip etc. Meant to be carried in a pouch/bag by someone in a squad and used when appropriate, and left at home when unneeded. Not taped to the bottom of the gun 100% of the time, for the one time in a thousand you *might* need it. And it was a handy little package, really nice to hold and use, with its decent sights and the nifty side-loading mechanism. Yet even though we got a few of those, I still had to lug around the paperweight for another year before my contract was up. Just never made sense to me. I know this was a long tangent on something barely related to the larger discussion or your comment, I just rarely get a chance to whinge about this one very specific gripe I had with my horrendous time in the Army.
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pikpikcarrotmon Mar 31, 2026 +31
After that they'll come for our Davy Crocketts
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JayJonesLovesMurder Mar 31, 2026 +5
You can literally buy grenade launchers, they’re totally legal.  https://lmtdefense.com/product/12-standalone-rail-mounted-m203/
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Toorviing Mar 31, 2026 +22
If the founding fathers didn’t intend every American to have an RPG for hunting and personal protection they wouldn’t have put it in the constitution
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dwarfarchist9001 Mar 31, 2026 +8
The revolutionary war started because the British government went to seize privately owned stockpiles of gunpowder and cannons at Concord and Worcester. The founding fathers would want every citizen to own an assault rifle and [a 3D printed MANPADS](https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/tech-hobbyist-makes-shoulder-mounted-guided-missile-prototype-with-usd96-in-parts-and-a-3d-printer-diy-manpads-includes-wi-fi-guidance-ballistics-calculations-optional-camera-for-tracking). Nuclear and biological weapons are probably where you would see most drawing the line.
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PoopSoupPeter Mar 31, 2026 +6
>Nuclear and biological weapons are probably where you would see most drawing the line. Filthy commies. I demand every citizen be given a nuclear bomb and nerve gas of their choosing!
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Kitchen_Article_699 Mar 31, 2026 +606
“Sir, did you pack your own bag?” “Yes, and also artillery.” Honestly wild he thought a 25mm live round was just fine. Maybe the Marines need a “no warheads in luggage” briefing.
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FellowDeviant Mar 31, 2026 +175
You got it wrong, he meant to throw in the Warheads *candy* but he was packing in the dark and couldn't tell
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KDR_11k Mar 31, 2026 +58
He mistook it for an extra large crayon.
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mdistrukt Mar 31, 2026 +52
It's got that bright blue tip, probably just thought it was a big crayon in a gold wrapper.
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MountainTwo3845 Mar 31, 2026 +6
*Gunny said I should be prepared at all times, sorry for doing my job*
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TheAmorphous Mar 31, 2026 +14
Needed a snack on the plane.
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soimalittlecrazy Mar 31, 2026 +18
It's also quite possible that it was an intentional act to get out of deployment to the stupid f****** war that the orange toddler has started. He can claim it was an accident but he's in enough trouble to stay home. Stripper Intel from those areas says they're getting boots on the ground deployment orders.
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thisvideoiswrong Mar 31, 2026 +16
Yeah, I was coming into this thinking that stuff does get lost and turn up in weird places. I had a fork in the lining of my suitcase for like a year. A cannon shell going missing seems like a bigger deal, but I guess it must have somehow.... No. He found it and decided to carry it around with him. Why?
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Nutlob Mar 31, 2026 +13
he was stupid. there is zero chance that he wasn't required to complete UXO training at some point. be probably traded some Zyns for someone to do his CBTs for him.
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Big-Neighborhood8957 Mar 31, 2026 +84
I found a random 25mm round while unpacking my stuff after a field exercise once. Not sure how it got in my vehicle, as I was not infantry and did not handle 25mm rounds. I performed maintenance on other parts of the Bradley but did not touch the M242. I could see it happening to a Marine just coming off a live fire exercise who failed to thoroughly check his bag before heading to the airport.
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RhoOfFeh Mar 31, 2026 +700
To me the most surprising thing is that TSA did something.
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redpoemage Mar 31, 2026 +260
If they miss 97% of things, they’ll still be finding thousands every year.
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Badloss Mar 31, 2026 +106
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they fail basically *every* time someone tests them. It's just security theater
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soundguynick Mar 31, 2026 +113
[95% of the time](https://abcnews.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881) according to this article. You are significantly safer in the hands of Disney world security than you are in the hands of TSA - I think it's been long enough that I can say that when I was testing Disney security, they had about a fifteen percent failure rate.
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[deleted] Mar 31, 2026 +14
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SooperSpoopyGhost Mar 31, 2026 +17
It's not going to be a grenade tapped to their back, likely was a flat explosive taped and sewed into something like a suit. The 'secret shoppers' who do this take it really seriously, have often worked for TSA in some capacity or adjacent to and have insider knowledge of procedures and equipment.
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KlutzyInvestments Mar 31, 2026 +56
Not supporting the TSA… but I’m willing to bet their audit is different from your audits at Disney World. The article you linked mentioned Red Team as super terrorists with beyond reasonable intimate knowledge of TSA’s technology and training. It’s not some dude walking through with a 10” chefs knife duct taped to his arm. It’s planned specifically to stress the TSA’s abilities using materials and techniques meant to evade their procedure and technology… which should conceivably be caught.
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Badloss Mar 31, 2026 +36
>In one test an undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device that was taped to his back during a follow-on pat down. I'm not sure this qualifies as "super terrorists that know all the weaknesses of the system"
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KlutzyInvestments Mar 31, 2026 +5
Could have intentionally held their arms to flex traps to better conceal the device knowing they lazily graze the shoulders and lower back. Just saying there’s probably a reason these articles and tests are over 10 years old.
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BrickwallBill Mar 31, 2026 +13
Iirc the reason most, if not all, the numbers are almost a decade old is because they stopped publishing them at all.
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KlutzyInvestments Mar 31, 2026 +18
Nah… the scanners made a huge difference. Have you seen those things work? Pisses me off. We basically MRI every purse and backpack for free, but charge humans $2500 for what could be a life changing/saving image. Lately the audits have been reporting the security risks of precheck and shoes on policy because the scanners don’t get your feet.
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soundguynick Mar 31, 2026 +15
It's one of the biggest targets for terrorism in the world, Bin Laden had maps of the utilidoors (the underground network) and the Pulse shooter scoped out Disney Springs before deciding on a target. I can't speak to the TSA's procedures, but our tests ranged from as simple as a simulated handgun in a bag to significantly more difficult tests. It's interesting you mention techniques to evade security - while none of my tests involved materials designed to evade detection (other than the simulated handguns, which were plastic and in bags, meant to be found via bag searches rather than metal detection), I did incorporate my knowledge of procedures to evade security. Keeping the item on my person and managing to not be "randomly selected for additional screening" via knowledge of how the selection process worked was very effective. Those tests were meant as a reminder that a sufficiently motivated person could figure out procedures and evade them. I haven't worked there in quite some time, but I'm very proud of the people that I helped train who caught the things my team and I tested them on. If you're actually doing it right, it's a mentally exhausting job.
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KlutzyInvestments Mar 31, 2026 +6
I’m not attempting to diminish your past work. Just that airports are significantly more trafficked and much more is invested in their safety because of what a hijacked plane means for many domains. I’m also not pulling anything from my brain. All of what I said is from the article you linked. More than happy to defer to your experience, especially on Disney.
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bobbymcpresscot Mar 31, 2026 +8
Granted my experience with this is as an observer, I used to work Airport Operations and DHS would use our office to monitor tests they were performing on TSA The year or two I worked there TSA caught almost every test, so I never understand how they managed a 95% failure rate. What the testing really is, is the DHS who knows the training procedures, knows the holes, and how to exploit them. They perform the test to know if current procedures would catch it, when it doesn't, training is issued nationwide on how to address the issue. My airport also had an FAA facility, an ANG base, and a coast guard base on it. We had more issues with the military just not waiting to make sure perimeter gates closed before driving off than we did anything else. Which was the point of the layers, because then we saw the gate didn't close and could go and investigate, but we ourselves were not TSA. People use the 95% failure rate to push privatization, which in no world would produce any more meaningful results than the current system we have. I can also promise you from my most recent trip to Disney last August that they would not have caught any of the tests mentioned in the article.
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Wittyname0 Mar 31, 2026 +11
To be fair, I read the last time they published numbers was like 15 years ago, so everyone is just repeating that number, no real way to know ifnits have gone up or down
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TheDovahkiinsDad Mar 31, 2026 +4
In 2016 yeah
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Tzayad Mar 31, 2026 +10
They took my box cutter that I removed the blade from, so it was absolutely harmless. But the pack of replacment blades I forgot about in my bag got through just fine.
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MIC4eva Mar 31, 2026 +6
I took a short flight home last summer. On the way back I was pulled aside as they showed me my bag of .22 ammo that I forgot I had put in my backpack when I was grouse hunting in the spring. It was embarrassing but I was pretty shocked that the first airport had missed it.
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Scotty_Gun Mar 31, 2026 +102
You never stop being a marine.
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foamingturtle Mar 31, 2026 +36
A friend of mine was a marine and used to do the security screening for fellow marines about to fly home. He said he had to tell people that they couldn’t bring grenades on the plane.
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Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO Mar 31, 2026 +68
I cross trained with US Marines once. The way some of them could code switch from confident expert killer to literal intellectually disabled person was f****** wild.
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Anangrywookiee Mar 31, 2026 +19
Marines are min max dnd players in real life.
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Flamelash115 Mar 31, 2026 +25
Can't a man just carry his emotional support round he found in the motorpool during maintenance on an LAV-25?
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halfaloafofkungfoo Mar 31, 2026 +228
while explosive round is crazy, isn't it a common occurrence for people to forget rounds in a bag?
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trashae Mar 31, 2026 +375
A small caliber bullet maybe, but a 25mm round is huge
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dshribes7 Mar 31, 2026 +295
That's what I keep telling my wife
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TheStupendusMan Mar 31, 2026 +35
It's not the size of the round, it's what you do with it.
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FrancoManiac Mar 31, 2026 +13
It's not the caliber of the round, but the caliber of the man.
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PowderPills Mar 31, 2026 +38
Also what I keep telling OPs wife
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jay-aay-ess-ohh-enn Mar 31, 2026 +45
I did this once in Japan with a 7.62 round. They just made me sign it over and let me on the plane. You are correct that a 25mm is quite different. It would take down the plane if it went off somehow. I also almost took a grenade on a medivac flight from theater because the Air Force medics kept carrying my body armor everywhere for me. I had to pass it off to the liaison as he was strapping me in on the plane to Germany. I could have totally just kept it all the way back to Hawaii. I'm not sure what I would have done with it from there since you can't fly with it and I have no desire to grenade someone.
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themaxvoltage Mar 31, 2026 +16
Whales love grenades
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TheAberrant Mar 31, 2026 +7
Missed chance to chuck it into a volcano (not that I think it’d do much? I’ve never actually seen a grenade in person, and I don’t think movies / tv shows are good depictions for me to make assumptions off of).
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madhi19 Mar 31, 2026 +3
Ain't that shit pretty damn stable? "Due to extensive rust and corrosion..." Nevermind throw the book at the idiot...
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WelderNewbee2000 Mar 31, 2026 +3
Why do you have no desire to grenade something? I thought that was a common desire everybody shared.
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halfaloafofkungfoo Mar 31, 2026 +10
agreed, why i noted it as crazy
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HoosierRed Mar 31, 2026 +3
negligent at best
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Funcron Mar 31, 2026 +3
25.4mm = 1 inch Big round for big boom
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EclecticDreck Mar 31, 2026 +7
Among the smallest rounds for boom, actually.
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Randomfactoid42 Mar 31, 2026 +60
Kinda hard to forget something this big: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_mm_caliber These 25 mm rounds aren’t rifle rounds, they’re cannon shells. 
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KingMario05 Mar 31, 2026 +16
Jesus. No wonder they detained him. But hey! Prison is still better than Iran.
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Zardif Mar 31, 2026 +13
>The Marine, who was released to military authorities, could face administrative action by the Marine Corps and a potential civil penalty through the TSA, He won't go to prison.
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KingMario05 Mar 31, 2026 +3
Ah. I see. ~~Lucky b******.~~
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Nerdlinger Mar 31, 2026 +6
“I thought it was a tube of caulk.”
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1877KlownsForKids Mar 31, 2026 +40
Usually limited to bullets though. Several things failed for this to occur, beyond even just this forgetful boot.
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PaidUSA Mar 31, 2026 +13
Isn’t it a think that you have to account for all the brass at the range for bootcamp. Surely there’s a stringent count the slightly high explosive cannon rounds requirement.
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AngryRedGummyBear Mar 31, 2026 +33
They dont actually count the brass. The goal is to get all the brass because 1) its recycled and 2) prevent accumulation of spent brass on the range. It turns out di's can and do lie.
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Alert-Ad9197 Mar 31, 2026 +9
Not cannon rounds comparable in size to a toddler’s forearm, no. 29 Palms is mostly live fire ranges by landmass. There’s unexplored ordinance everywhere and people pick it up like idiots because it looks cool.
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AngryRedGummyBear Mar 31, 2026 +9
Can confirm set up camp at night. Rolled out my mat near a "rock." Sunlight revealed it was probably an unexploded 155mm mostly buried. I did not f*** around to verify.
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secretqwerty10 Mar 31, 2026 +5
look up how big a 25mm round is though. that's as big as a can of deodorant at the very least
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umamiking Mar 31, 2026 +13
You wouldn't think so but if you read the comments in stories like this (where people bring loaded firearms through TSA), you'll see a lot of people claiming it's totally normal and an innocent mistake. That they regularly need to carry loaded weapons (2A oooh rah!), and how could you expect them to treat a trip to the airport for an international flight any differently?
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dakness69 Mar 31, 2026 +3
I watched it happen to a guy as he was heading home from vacation last Christmas, accidentally brought his gun with him to Hawaii. Then 3 different people just within earshot piped up about how they had done similar with handguns or magazines at one point or another.😅 Yea, I’m convinced it happens all the time now.
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oldveteranknees Mar 31, 2026 +5
Yep. I knew an Italian check in agent that had an American couple show up to her desk in Italy pull out their handguns from their checked bags and dropped them at her desk like “what do we do with these?”
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OutlawSundown Mar 31, 2026 +86
Was it next to a mostly eaten box of crayons?
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TheStLouisBluths Mar 31, 2026 +37
No, those were in his carry on.
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AdultContemporaneous Mar 31, 2026 +7
His ca-ray-on.
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Zestyclose-Finish778 Mar 31, 2026 +9
In my army days we were going home to Hawaii after a 45 day field exercise on the DMV in South Korea. We travel with our gear to include rifle magazines. They had to be empty, you shouldn’t leave the range without being cleared of ammo but we had 1 stellar soldier leave 30 rounds in a magazine and then put it on his carry on back as we enter Inchon Airport in South Korea. Needless to say this young soldier didn’t make that flight and when he got back 7 days later he had 45 days of extra duty waiting for him.
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parker2020 Mar 31, 2026 +43
Marine got it confused with his crayon box. Happens to the best of us
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OutlawSundown Mar 31, 2026 +8
The half eaten box was next to it
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free_username_ Mar 31, 2026 +16
That’s a smart way to dodge deployment
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Toobatheviking Mar 31, 2026 +22
When I was coming back from deployment one of my kids in my platoon that was stopped going through customs because he forgot a hand grenade inside his body armor. There's a zippered pouch that is not used to the point where most of us forget it's there, but my kid had stuck a grenade in there at the beginning of deployment and had just never used it, and had forgotten it was in there. Kid was absolutely cooked. He was a good kid and no part of me thought he had done that on purpose, but I had told him and his next two levels of leadership to check everything *repeatedly* and make sure they didn't have any live bullets or anything that would cause shenanigans when we went through customs. The customs guys were pretty adamant that they report the incident to their boss, I wanted the customs guys to just let me handle it so I took the kid a couple steps away from the screening area and gave the performance of a lifetime. I went on a tirade that R. Lee Ermey would have blushed at. We didn't have any of our senior leadership with us, and a lieutenant was the highest ranking Officer we had with us at the time. I am absolutely lambasting this kid and the Lieutenant comes over and tells me to cool it and wants to know what's going on. "I've got it sir." He ordered me to tell him what was going on, so I pulled him aside a couple steps and leaned in while doing some more roleplaying "(insert name here) forgot he had a smoke grenade in his kit. I am trying to get him out of trouble, just let me work this" "Ok, but we need to notify the Commander and you need to counsel him" I told the Lieutenant to let me try to get him out of this first and we would talk in a minute. I went back to verbally beating this kid up. The customs guys after hearing how cooked this kid was with just me (how could they not) decided that was enough I guess, because the grenade went to the amnesty box. (There's locked boxes that you can deposit ammunition of various types in if you do an oops so you don't get in trouble, it's a tool to make sure that ordnance doesn't go places it shouldn't) After we got through the checkpoint I pulled him aside and told him he was fine. I pulled the Lieutenant aside and explained that the customs thing was to not have echelons *far* above ours find out that we were fucked up, and everybody would have been in hot water. If he tells the Commander, then the Commander would punish the kid and word would get around about him bringing live ordnance through customs, and we'd have the same issue. Ultimately we came to a compromise where I wrote the kid up a counseling statement (it's just a form, kind of like a progress report, that goes into your file) and that was that. The customs guys never wrote it up, the Commander never got notified, and the kid has been promoted over time to a pretty senior rank in the Army.
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Altrebelle Mar 31, 2026 +7
nice story...but one of failure of leadership. The "kid's" NCOs should have inspected gear before returning to CONUS. ESPECIALLY coming back from deployment. Responsibility of munitions (even if it's just pyro) is on EVERY level. I get why you did what you did and handling both up and down. What's the lesson that kid learned that day? Sure take care of your own...but what's the consequence. I mean really what's the consequence of a counseling that goes in the trash when they leave the duty station? That Marine with that round...it could very well be an honest mistake...but 25mm grenade rounds don't unintentionally walk off the range. He, his NCOs, the range safety people and a whole bunch more are responsible for letting that one round get off the range. Let alone in one's luggage.
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Toobatheviking Mar 31, 2026 +8
Yeah, you're right. Ultimately he busted his ass on that deployment and was one of those kids that his team leader and squad leader didn't have to spend a lot of time on. My gut said to handle it like I did. I coulda gone the other way but I suppose it was a judgement call. As I told somebody earlier, he had left it inside the zipper in the back of his TAP and it was clipped to his armor. He'd been carrying it in there for so long he forgot about it. So yeah, it could have gone either way. He's a 1SG now so I guess he's on the right path. This was 15 years ago, I forgot to mention that.
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Infradad Mar 31, 2026 +4
Damn. I really feel like we should be paying those guys if they’re actually doing thier job.
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Agent_Vox Mar 31, 2026 +10
I don't know if I'm more surprised that a Marine tried to carry ordnance into a plane, or that TSA did something.
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IvanStarokapustin Mar 31, 2026 +15
He was just defending freedom by bringing large ammo on board a passenger aircraft. Probably needs 10% off at Chipotle to thank him for his service.
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AKsuited1934 Mar 31, 2026 +8
After inspecting his ID and confirming that he is an active US a marine, agents sent him on his way with a full box of crayons.
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VampiricClam Mar 31, 2026 +3
He was saving that for a little snack (commissary was out of crayons).
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Mem0ryEat3r Mar 31, 2026 +3
Can't have nothing anymore fr
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Mueltime Apr 1, 2026 +3
If it’s a present Kid Rock he will have all charges dropped.
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Shitboxfan69 Apr 1, 2026 +3
God forbid a white boy catch a vibe
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Nasty_Goblin Apr 1, 2026 +3
Ih his defense, it looks like a big crayon.
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PhotographEqual1929 Apr 1, 2026 +3
Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected
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Sufficient-Quote-431 Mar 31, 2026 +10
These things happen but given the time in which this happened, I’d have to say this feels like some sort of PR campaign that we really need TSA
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ProblyKindofAasshole Mar 31, 2026 +5
I don't doubt that this is a possibility that this shitty administration would think of something like that but I don't think they would frame a marine. Probably some Iranian.
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BoldestKobold Mar 31, 2026 +49
25mm explosive round = grenade launcher ammo, for those wondering. Edit: Apologies, and thanks for the correction. I was getting 25mm explosive rounds for chain guns confused with the 25mm grenades developed for the XM25 and related projects. Leaving my wrong answer up to remind myself to double check my info before posting. Edit #2: This is also more evidence for the old rule that the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer first.
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PreparationFit6327 Mar 31, 2026 +24
25mm is not grenade launcher, that is 40mm. 25mm is the HE round for the chain gun on the LAV-25
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Bellicosi Mar 31, 2026 +66
Wrong, thats 40mm. 25mm is cannon rounds.
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BoldestKobold Mar 31, 2026 +9
Thanks for the correction. I got it confused with the XM prototypes in my head for some reason.
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emmanthedrummer Mar 31, 2026 +4
This guy got it right. 25mm round is for a MGS
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Spirited-Tomorrow-84 Mar 31, 2026 +14
Something I carry around too. You never know when it's gonna rain!
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pleetf7 Mar 31, 2026 +7
I got one in my purse in case chicken at lunch isn’t spicy enough
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Ok_Sprinkles_962 Mar 31, 2026 +36
You're thinking of a 40mm grenade. Planes, APCs and shit shot the 25mm NATO. It's just a big bullet.with a lil' HE inside.
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JoeFromTheAfternoon Mar 31, 2026 +10
Wrong. 25mm….like a LAV-25 round. Not 40mm grenade launcher.
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BoldestKobold Mar 31, 2026 +5
Thanks for the correction. Leaving my original wrongness up with an edit to show I was confused, as a life lesson to myself.
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iDrGonzo Mar 31, 2026 +7
Grenade launcher is 40mm, the Bradley shoots 25mm with high explosive, armor piercing, depleted uranium, all kinds of tips.
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BoldestKobold Mar 31, 2026 +5
Thanks for the correction. Leaving my original wrongness up with an edit to show I was confused, as a life lesson to myself.
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TraditionalGap1 Mar 31, 2026 +5
No, it's not a grenade launcher round; the US gave up on developing their 25mm grenade systems. It's likely a 25x137 cannon round
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BoldestKobold Mar 31, 2026 +3
Thanks for the correction. Leaving my original wrongness up with an edit to show I was confused, as a life lesson to myself.
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