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....When I out-processed from the Army in 1973, I was charged $13.00 for an air mattress I lost in basic training. In Uncle Sugar's world, if we signed out a "mattress, field type" one,...then later we had better account for it... The Military is anal-like way past what you would believe...in the real (US continental) world a lost M-16 would cause a crisis and would be tracked to the last person who signed for it-and someone HAS signed for it... Anyone who has dealt with military stores can verify the following: If it is worth over $10, it comes in a heavy duty storage case...from ammunition thru really expensive stuff, military items are well packed... I worked on helicopter engines (T-53 and T-55) and can tell you they came in vacuum sealed, steel formed, custom shipping pods with attached paperwork packets.We signed for the engine before we could open the pod.Then we filed our paperwork when we put the old engine in the pod... ...So basically-neither the missile nor the warhead were laying around to be mounted casually to a southbound Buff...each should have separately been waiting in steel storage pods in which, if Louisiana was their final destination,they could have more easily have been loaded to a cargo plane and shipped -these bad boys were called from their cases,mated,and tied to a wing mount...and NOT by mistake.
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