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Offline TheSarge

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It's No Dud: Bomb Squad Disposes of Live Rocket on Display in Veterans' Museum
« on: January 24, 2008, 05:21:24 AM »
CUMBERLAND, Maryland  —  History could have come to life in very much the wrong way at a veterans' museum where a rocket on display for two years was discovered to be live.

After Allegany County authorities were notified Wednesday that the Mark 1 rocket on display in Cumberland might be live, the state fire marshal's office and the FBI confirmed it was. Bomb experts removed the ordnance and rendered it safe.

The 48-inch-by-2.75-inch rocket was similar to those used on helicopter gun ships during the Vietnam War, said Deputy State Fire Marshal Joseph Zurolo Jr. A local veteran donated it to the museum, which is in a chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Zurolo said.

Authorities are investigating how the man came to possess the live ordnance.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325039,00.html
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Re: It's No Dud: Bomb Squad Disposes of Live Rocket on Display in Veterans' Museum
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2008, 03:03:32 PM »
Yikes!

My local VFW has a tank in front of their lodge.  Should I be worried?   :-)
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Re: It's No Dud: Bomb Squad Disposes of Live Rocket on Display in Veterans' Muse
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2008, 03:33:37 PM »
Quote from: Chris on January 25, 2008, 03:03:32 PM
Yikes!

My local VFW has a tank in front of their lodge.  Should I be worried?   :-)
Only if you can still look down the gun tube and see to the breach. :-)
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