Losing your weapon while serving in the military
So, you're in the British armed forces and you lose your weapon. What happens to you? That depends entirely on your rank. I served in the RAF Regiment for just over three years, and in that time, my flight commander lost his rifle.
And not just once, but twice! The first time was on battlecamp in a godforsaken part of Wales called Sennybridge, where I swear it rains every day. Anyway, this guy left his rifle on top of a pile of webbing and just walked away. As soon as he was out of sight, his rifle was picked up and chucked in the back of a 4 tonner, and then covered over with a pile of Bergens. When he came back a few minute later and asked if anyone had seen his rifle, the whole flight denied any knowledge of it.
Six months later, on the rifle range in Cyprus, he left his rifle lying around again. This time, one of the flight’s gunners trashed the sight’s zeroing, so that when he came back and started firing, all he did was plant holes in the ground fifty meters from his position.
Because he was an officer, nothing else happened to him. If he hadn’t been an officer, maybe a fine, maybe charged, maybe jankers, and given the nature of that particular squadron, probably a trip behind the hangar for a ‘careers brief.’ But definitely something would have happened.
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