Posted on Nov 16, 2015
SSgt Alex Robinson
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Is this an act of terror or just someone stealing weapons?

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/11/15/worcester-armory-break-in-fbi
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Not to get in the weeds of security of weapons, but one does not simply "break in" to a weapons vault. It has a gigantic steel door wired with an alarm that will alert law enforcement if opened without a code. After that, weapons are in a cage and locked in heavy racks.
Further, if you were breaking in to take weapons, you wouldn't just abscond with a couple. You'd try to get as many as you could carry.

This smells like either an inside job, where the culprit will be identified very easily, or a case of non-accountability after use, where the commander and armorer at minimum will fry.
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LTC John Shaw
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SSG John Thornton - hmmm, probably not an inside job, facts, they are funny things.
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CSM Carlson C.
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You gotta be kidding me. Got to be an inside job. But then I question the physical security. Why did the motion detectors not go off? I hope the jackass that did this one fries... I need to read the whole story.
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I completely agree. Even with key/code it's still difficult lol. I hate to say it but the army is still full of the "****bags" and is more than likey the inside job 1SG Healy stated.
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We drilled this weekend and our Reserve Center Career Counselor also covers the Reserve Center in Worcester. She was there Saturday afternoon and the center was not vacated until 1800. By 0600 the next morning when everyone returned, they found that someone had cut through the roof of the building housing the arms room and that they also cut through the roof/ceiling of the arms room and did get away with an undisclosed number of weapons. FBI was on scene within 30 minutes. There was also evidence that whoever broke in also attempted to cover their tracks with a failed attempt to blow up the vault... I'll be glad to be corrected by anyone from Worcester who was there as a witness. Sounds premeditated, planned, and executed well. But until they are caught, we'll never know.

We also had an incident at our Reserve Center at the beginning of the summer where several suspicious, middle eastern men were found walking the perimeter of the building during the week. Police were notified and these men stated that they were just trying to find the recruiting center, which doesn't exist at our Reserve Center.... OPSEC needs to be real and practiced. No one knows what will happen next.
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SSgt Alex Robinson
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SSG (Join to see) thanks for the information. Stay safe.
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SSG (Join to see), according to this report it was 6 M4's and 10 M9's. This makes sense. I doubt linked ammo would be easy to come by for the M249's and M240's and forget grenades for the m203's and M320's. They can go to Walmart for 5.56mm and 9mm. This is terror related.

http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Weapons-Missing-From-Armory-in-Worcester-Massachusetts-After-Break-in-350164441.html
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SGT Shawn Volkmann
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I agree, these weapons will resurface in an attack on our soil.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SSgt Alex Robinson sounds like whom ever did did travesty, if it was an inside job is, threatening National Security and will be a felon when convicted of this malicious crime.
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SSG Audwin Scott
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Wow, so the question is how in the world were some weapons stolen from an Army reserve unit? Was it an inside job or the security of these weapons in a weak area to be stolen?
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