USAF Kit Stolen

[Del Monty]

This is being posted around as a genuine notice from the United States Air Force based at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

 

If anyone spots any of the missing items there is a contact number at the bottom of the notice.

 

May be of peoples interests..

 

 

[Monty]

Saw the post too, I'm on the look out.

[Ian_Gere]

Nah, none of it will go with any of my loadouts

[Mike1971]

I need a new sleeping bag, is any of the stuff on eBay yet?

[Russe11]

Bloody Americans, the theft is in the UK, they are obviously investigating in the UK, why then is the reward in US$??

[Esoterick]

Also larceny is not a crime in England lol.

[Suzuki Yamamoto]

Anyone else thinking "Inside job"?

[Russe11]

My immediate thought is some QM has had a lucrative sideline going for some time and has just been audited and gone 'Well it was all here last time I checked this storeroom!'

[Airsoft-Ed]

This has got to be total bollocks.

If it's not, then I'm going to break into RAF Lakenheath myself, and steal all the American's shit; then it's just a case of waiting for them to offer a reward for its return, which will be 10 times more lucrative than selling any of it.

Sounds like pretty easy money.

 

 

 

 

 

'Cos breaking into Lakenheath will obviously be a piece of piss...

[TacMaster]

$10,000 is roughly £6,000. Selling the body armour and such to uneducated chavs for extremely high prices would get you waaaaaay more cash than pretending you found it and handing it back in.

[Finius]

$10,000 reward for finding $180,000 worth of stolen gear?

 

Bit stingy there 'Murica!

[Sam_G]

hmmmmm smells like bull shit!

[EvilMonkee]

Yeh I call BS too. The whole post looks like it was knocked up in 5 minutes and all the kit on there are generic items that could have been pulled from any one of a number of websites. The big giveaway is the helmet which they dont use anymore.

[Mack]

Yeh I call BS too. The whole post looks like it was knocked up in 5 minutes and all the kit on there are generic items that could have been pulled from any one of a number of websites. The big giveaway is the helmet which they dont use anymore.

 

They still use the helmet, although the IBA was phased out for the IOTV

[team flex]

IDK. Personally, I would think the military wouldn't post one of these. To me, I would believe they would do an investigation and have some search teams or whatever.

 

Also, surely they have CCTV etc, and patrolling people. I do CCF, and whenever we go to a base (went to bramley at the weekend) there are checks etc and people patrolling the area. I hardly believe some chavs were able to storm the base, and even if it was at night, I can't imagine chavs having thee equipment, time, and brainpower to be able to A) get into the compound find the items C) pack it all into a truck (must be quite a lot of it) and D) not get caught doing A-C. Seems to me like someone inside wanted some extra money.

[Sitting Duck]

how much of this stuff wa nicked ???

 

I will ask at my local - probaly the local arms dealer had something to do with it - Nobby the Nuke-Man

sounds like b0ll0cks though like most of the stuff I type

 

gonna ring a tip-off line tell them some chubby bastid in Twickenham was offering some FANTASTIC genuine US loadout gear

[Mike636]

IDK. Personally, I would think the military wouldn't post one of these. To me, I would believe they would do an investigation and have some search teams or whatever.

 

Also, surely they have CCTV etc, and patrolling people. I do CCF, and whenever we go to a base (went to bramley at the weekend) there are checks etc and people patrolling the area. I hardly believe some chavs were able to storm the base, and even if it was at night, I can't imagine chavs having thee equipment, time, and brainpower to be able to A) get into the compound find the items C) pack it all into a truck (must be quite a lot of it) and D) not get caught doing A-C. Seems to me like someone inside wanted some extra money.

 

Just to let you know the Americans have posters up reminding them not to rape! RAPE! The most vicious poster I ever saw on a British base was reminding people to wash up after themselves. If I was to hedge a guess I'd say it was more likely an inside job.

[jeffery7466]

Just to let you know the Americans have posters up reminding them not to rape! RAPE!

 

Not sure if I find that funny or sad...

[Gen.Ryzomadman]

After a little investigation about 33 sec on the net , I would say its a fake...the phone contact number is incorrect and the Email address is wrong I maybe wrong but ...there again how knows...

 

http://www.dodig.mil/map/dcio_maps/AFOSI/AFOSIUK.htm

[Ian_Gere]

 

Not sure if I find that funny or sad...

or horrifying...

[Happy]

or horrifying...

This. Sadly some people would stoop that low though :/

[jcheeseright]

Just to let you know the Americans have posters up reminding them not to rape! RAPE!

 

 

this one lived on the reggies door on HMS Edinburgh... 'nuff said!

[Super64]

Just been for a quick visit to Lakenheath, came away with two F-15's and a C130 if anyone's interested. Seems they're now guarding the sleeping bags, but not the aircraft ;-)

 

Where exactly was this posted? I would have expected Suffolk Constabulary to be doing any enquiries off base and the USAF doing all the internal stuff.

[pwgarrett]

Knew some lads who when asked by some yanks back in GW1 said that their T-shirts, with 55 TRG SQN on it meant 55 Terrorist Response Group

For those T-shirts the americans swopped all sorts of kit, camp beds, doss bags etc loads of kit.

 

Actually meant 55 training sqn, as those boys were straight out the factory

[jcheeseright]

Americans will swap virtually anything for anything, mate of mine got a really nice matt black leatherman EOD for an MTP smock off a US Marine in Afghanistan. Apparently he'd tried one on and really liked the fleece handwarmer pockets.

 

Mental.