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Oct 20, 2013 News
The Guyana Defence Force is searching for 463 rounds of 7.62X39 ammunition that went missing from the military training camp at Tacama in the Berbice River. The rounds were discovered missing on Thursday.
Reports from the military camp stated that ranks from the Military Investigation Department have been flown in to the area to conduct further investigations. Their first mission is to ascertain how long the ammunition has been missing.
At present Tacama is the location where the Junior Leadership Course and the Skills at Arms Course are conducted. Each of these involves the firing of live rounds.
The procedure is for the rounds to be uplifted from the armoury either at Timehri or at Camp Ayanganna and transported to Tacama. A Sergeant Major would then sign and proceed to store the ammunition.
When live rounds are to be used there is a Fire Point Officer who collects these rounds and who must account for them at the end of the exercise. Any unused rounds must be turned over to the Sergeant Major. Somewhere along the way the 463 rounds disappeared. The authorities say that the rounds have not left the camp because as soon as they were found to be missing nothing was allowed to leave.
The 7.63X39 rounds are used in the AK47 weapon.
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