The Air Force is at it again. While transporting between ICBM sites in Mountrail County, North Dakota a box of MK19 grenades fell off the back of a truck traveling down a gravel road. Airman of the 91st Missile Wing Security Forces returned to walk the 6 mile route and perform and extensive search which still did not turn up the missing munitions. The Air Force is offering a reward of $5000 for their safe return.
According to The Washington post
The Air Force is offering $5,000 for leads on the whereabouts of a box of explosive grenade rounds that its personnel accidentally dropped on a road in North Dakota while traveling between two intercontinental ballistic missile sites — the facilities scattered across the U.S. heartland that stand ready to launch nuclear warheads at a moment’s notice.
Airmen from the 91st Missile Wing Security Forces team were traveling on gravel roads May 1 in North Dakota when the back hatch of their vehicle opened and a container filled with the explosive ammunition fell out, according to a statement from Minot Air Force Base.
On May 11, the Air Force sent more than 100 airmen to walk the entire six-mile route where the grenades were probably lost, according to a statement from the local Mountrail County sheriff. But two weeks after it was lost, the box of explosives still hasn’t been found.
The missing ordnance is a belt of linked grenades for the MK 19 automatic grenade launcher, Sheriff…
If you know the idiot or are the idiot running around with a box O’ boom booms you can contact the Air Force at the number provided below. Trust me even a training round going off WILL cause some serious damage.
If you have any useful info you should contact the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at 701-723-7909.