Posted on Jul 13, 2016
Why must I check my sword/knife collection in the arms room when I showed no signs of being violent (but am trusted with a 240B & ammo)?
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Were you living in the barracks or housing at that time?
Who is "they" that made you store swords and knifes in the arms room?
If command directed those items should have been stored in the supply room, not arms room.
Was this a unit policy or an individual action for you?
Your profile shows you got out in 2003..... why is this now a question? Have you been harboring ill will about this issue for 13 years?
Who is "they" that made you store swords and knifes in the arms room?
If command directed those items should have been stored in the supply room, not arms room.
Was this a unit policy or an individual action for you?
Your profile shows you got out in 2003..... why is this now a question? Have you been harboring ill will about this issue for 13 years?
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SPC James Gehringer
smg " they" would be Bco 2/8 infantry.i lived in the barracks one of my swords still bears the knicks in the blade from the mishandling it endured in the arms room so i guess i still bear a bit of ill will evey time i look at the blade. it was company policy but since i had a collection of blades checked in the arms room they inforsed it more stricltly with me (I had buddies that were allowed to keep one or 2 blades up to 6 inches in their room while i had to check 3 1/2 inch folding blades)
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Because, and we all know this happens..."Joe" gets drunk in the barracks, and somebody will then use the key phrase, "Here Hold my Beer" and then "Hey Y'all, watch this" OR the really dangerous dude says, "Hey I got a great Idea" and the next thing you know, someone tried to do the "Knife between the fingers really fast thing" and ends up with a Dagger stuck through your hand, into a table top....OR some Chuckle head buys some throwing knives, because they had to learn to throw them in Starship Troopers, and this guy then uses the back of the brand new door in his brand new barracks room as a target backer for a construction paper target.....Dude, for every responsible Soldier in the barracks, you got a Chucklehead that might have been a P-H-D, but he became a mental midget when he became a P-V-T.
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SPC James Gehringer
SSG Warren Swan - i didn't display any of those things you mention my biggest infractions were forgetting to button cargo pocket buttons and forgetting to shave before pt a couple times
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SGT Jimmy Carpenter
SPC James Gehringer - You had access to the 240 when your CO gave you access. As far as others having access to your swords and damaging them, the only people with access to the company arms room would be the CO, the armorer, and if your unit has one, an assistant armorer so it should be easy to narrow down who's responsible for damaging your swords.
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SPC James Gehringer
SGT Jimmy Carpenter - the problem was when they did the weekly arms room inventory the would task one or 2 random soilder to give the armor a hand and he would stand there and and watch them swing the swords around and think it was funny (how it fourn out was one of them had the nerve to brag to my face that they were swinging my sword around in the arms room and that the armor said he could) whitch is when i started requesting to see my collection so the one most directly responsible is the armour spc Y. (don't ask me to spell it it was a long slovic name)
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SGT Jimmy Carpenter
SPC James Gehringer - I would agree, the armorer is directly responsible since he was in charge. Have you brought this to your chain of command?
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