{"id":25519,"date":"2018-05-18T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/18\/minot-air-force-base-loses-machine-gun-two-weeks-after-losing-grenade-launcher-ammo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:40:55","slug":"minot-air-force-base-loses-machine-gun-two-weeks-after-losing-grenade-launcher-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/05\/18\/minot-air-force-base-loses-machine-gun-two-weeks-after-losing-grenade-launcher-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"Minot Air Force Base loses machine gun \u2014 two weeks after losing grenade launcher ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minot Air Force Base<\/a> in North Dakota on Thursday said that an M240 machine gun is missing from its weapons inventories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 7.62 caliber weapon was found to be missing during a standard inventory check on Wednesday, Lt. Col. Jamie Humphries, chief of public affairs for the 5th Bomb Wing, said in a release Thursday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Force\u2019s Office of Special Investigations has opened an investigation, Humphries said. The 5th Bomb Wing<\/a> and 91st Missile Wing<\/a> also immediately began searching their weapons inventories to try to find the machine gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discovery took place about two weeks after a container of ammunition for an automatic grenade launcher fell off a Humvee on the Fort Berthold Native American reservation located more than an hour away from Minot.<\/p>\n\n\n\t