... in response to Get it right........, posted by Heat on May 5, 2005'May have been' and 'clearly'.
'May have been': What else you gonna do with 40,000 rounds? And some of the news reports are already saying that the Colombian government has viable evidence linking some GI's at the same base to AUC connections (can't say for sure if they have AUC links to those PARTICLAR GI's though, haven't heard).
'clearly' - You see it that way because you want to give the bennifit of doubt to your brothers in arms. I'll go with 'may have been' for this case, in fact, I'll even entertain the notion of 'could well be just a stupid mistake', because 1300 rounds isn't much of a deal and some people are just plain forgetful. Plus the Mexican authorities haven't (as least as far as I've seen in any published report) accused them of having any links with terrorist or organized crime groups.
Still, even though 1300 isn't much of a 'deal', it is a lot more than you need to keep around just in case you're suddenly struck by a desire to spend a couple hours at the practice range, and crossing the border with it certainly demonstrates poor judgement on their part. Let's wait and see what (if anything) the Mexican courts convict them of (right now they are charged with illegaly possessing millitary style ammunition).
