The military is investigating the theft of arms from a weapons room at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart. Panzer Kaserne, home to the garrison’s headquarters, is shown here.
– Weapons stolen from arms room on US military base in Stuttgart:
STUTTGART, Germany — Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating the theft of guns and other military equipment from a base arms room in Stuttgart, military officials said.
“Several semi-automatic pistols, one small-caliber automatic rifle and a shotgun were among the items taken,” said Chris Grey, a CID spokesman.
The Army did not identify all the items stolen or the unit targeted, citing the active investigation. A possible breach of the base fence is also part of the ongoing probe.
“We are looking at all possibilities as the investigation continues, but at this point in the investigation it does not appear that an outside entity stole the firearms and equipment or breached the fence line, but we have not completely ruled it out,” Grey said.
A military official who was not authorized to speak to the media said that the site was Panzer, which also is home to elite units such as Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs, as well as the garrison’s headquarters.
The break-in, which occurred earlier this month, comes at a time of heightened security concerns in Germany in the wake of a wave of high-profile terrorist attacks. These include the July 23 suicide bombing in Ansbach by a Syrian migrant who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and the July 19 attack by an Afghan refugee, also claiming allegiance to the group, on a group of tourists on a train in Wuerzburg.
On July 22, a German with dual German-Iranian citizenship killed nine people in a shooting rampage in Munich. While no Islamic terrorist link was established in that case, it has fueled a sense of angst in Germany, which has taken in about a million migrants in the past year.
The military said the German police were assisting with the investigation at the Stuttgart base.
“German authorities were notified and are working with the Army on the investigation,” Johnson said, adding that
no further information would be released during the probe.
The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command and the Stuttgart CID Office are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to the recovery of the gear or information that aids in the prosecution of those involved in the theft.
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In 1962 Shorty Raisenen and PFC Floyd Wacasey left post on pass and were not seen again for 4-6 months. Floyd had a clean 15 or so years old Mercedes Benz in which they had stashed a lot of field gear for camping out under the stars all over Europe. They sent post cards back to Company Bee describing some of their goings on. Capt Gainey pleaded w/us weekly to tell Floyd and Shorty to return to the company as they were soon to be declared deserters.
Post cards were rec’d from Spain, Italy, North Africa, Greece et al. Soon the cards ceased and tales of woo arrived via CID/CIC to the effect that the two were pulling things like stealing radios off of landing ships in North Africa, conning naval units into giving them partial pays, getting the Red Cross money for tickets or tickets back to Germany. All of this staying three steps ahead of US and Interpol authorities. They again disappeared from view.
What’s up, no one or entities heard from the two rascals-not a word for weeks on end-now Arms Rooms became looted from bases in Stuttgart/even our own arms room*. I would assume that bye now US employees figured out that the two were back on their Home Turf but were unable to find them.
Along comes the Forest Meister, hiking thru the woods and Walla here’s two Hex Tents erected just a few hundred yards from Panzer Kasserne. One tent to live in and one to keep their loot in.
They were specializing in automatic weapons plus ammo and word had it that they were or were planning to sell their stash to Greek Freedom Fighters hiding out in the Stuttgart area.
Now they’re stationed in/at the
Robinson Barracks Stockade where one of the guards was kinda like the one in the movie filmed in Hawaii starring Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster to name a few other notables [From Here to Maternity]. Anyway they took a couple-a-street sweeping brooms to the dude and killed him-what the hell they figure they’re gonna spend the rest of their lives in stir.
They were transported to Panzer each morning and back to Robinson Barracks in the afternoon until their Court’s Martial was concluded. Personnel from Company Bee needed to guard them w/loaded carbines each way. Shorty and Wacasey were made to sit all the way in front of a deuce and a half and our guards sat all the way in the back. The understanding was that during the course of the 19 kilometer trip if their butts left the bench seat they were setting on that their X-companions would empty their clips on ’em
*The first Arms Room broken into.
The Over-Sexed weekly had quite a run following the events in Panzer, Bad Konstadt, Robinson Barracks, Patch, etc. I haven’t been able to track the duo down. I hope that after fifty some years they’ve bailed or died. They were both held in high esteem by personnel, both officers and enlisted men.
Let me know if you can locate these two 97th Signal Corps comrads.