U.S. military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world
A photo illustration combining a defendant’s written statement in the case of explosives he stole from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, evidence photos of fragmentation grenades, evidence photos of C4 explosives, document exemption blocks, and a screen capture of an explosion from a generic demolition exercise video. (AP Illustration)
Stolen military training rockets are shown as found in April 2019 in a residence near Fort Hood, an Army base in Killeen, Texas. (U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division via AP)
Associated Press
The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election.
And so, block by block, he stole 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of C4 plastic explosives from the training ranges of Camp Lejeune...
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