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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy
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But I digress, he had trophies like you wouldn't believe. He had all the flags and patches and shit, but the motherload was a bunch of 23mm shells he pulled out of a Shilka. He actually came home with several coke bottle sized anti-aircraft shells in his duffel bag, it was insane.
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They REALLY cut down on this Post 9/11... lol. Especially when soldiers going home on R&R got caught trying to sneak grenades through airport security. There was still ways around it. I know guys who sent half a million dollars home by putting individual dollar bills behind pictures in photo albums. Didn't even tell his wife because didn't trust that phone calls weren't being recorded. Wife couldn't figure out why he kept sending thousands of pictures home. One day she pulled a picture out to show her mother-in-law and found the money. Was hilarious.
Also knew armorers who would order parts for rifles and machine guns and mail them home piece by piece, and then assemble a complete weapon that was untraceable state-side. Was pretty easy to sneak certain things into shipping containers too. I legit slept with my night vision goggles tied to my belt with parachute cord, and stuffed into my cargo pocket because it was one of the most frequently stolen items because it was so small it was super easy to mail home.
Had a lot of insane pictures too. Was an 18 year old kid at the time. Had no idea that it was illegal. We'll just say I deleted the fuck out of those, and even physically destroyed the hard-drive they were on once guys started getting arrested, haha.