Incident on Virgina Beach

[Richard Ray]

Just a funny story: In 2004 or so I was metal detecting on Virgina beach with my wife Frankie, about 1/4 mile north of the pavilion, when I noticed a disturbance down the beach and everyone was leaving. Presently a couple men in military uniforms and a policeman approached me and told me that there was a general evacuation of the beach had been ordered because of some military ordnance had been discovered washed up on the beach. I wasn't doing well anyway, only some modern coinage and a cell phone had been recovered that morning. So we just moved on to another beach then went across the Chesapeake Bay bridge.
Richard

 

[relichunters]

What did it turn out to be?

 

[Richard Ray]

Don't know what it was, remember they made everybody leave the area. Was of no interest to me anyway, we've found plenty of bombs, grenades and land mines over the years while metal detecting. Found my first land mine in Arizona in 1963... Had a top Sargent chew me out for carrying it in the rear window of my Studebaker, made me go to the firing range and blow it up... LOL Oh, Virginia Beach is just south of Ft. Story and Dams Neck Air base just to the south and Oceana base just to the west... No surprise to find military stuff in the area, there's several more bases nearby....
Richard

 

[hombre_de_plata_flaco]

A friend of mine who was in the Navy was stationed at Norfolk. He just stayed up there after he did his 4 years and moved to VA Beach. I'll ask him if he knows anything about this. He still has close ties to the military.

 

[Richard Ray]

You ever been to Norfolk? They have a great PX and a lot of other things (like many types of ships) to see. So many bases in the area. I loved Ft. Monroe and Ft. Eustis, of course Quantico is always interesting. LOL I was there when they went to DEFCON 3 after 9/11... Out came the M-60's and roadblocks..
Richard

 

[hombre_de_plata_flaco]

Never been to visit my friend. He keeps asking but I just haven't made it. He does government contract work that requires a security clearance.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Probably a bunch of syringes and toxic waste as usual.

 

[Dano Sverige]

Ain't seal team 6 based at Virginia beach? Maybe they got lazy and dumped Osama there...and he washed up?

 

[spartacus53]

Dano, this incident happened back in 2004 and something triggered that memory I guess..

 

[Dano Sverige]

I knew that. I was...just testing!

 

[hombre_de_plata_flaco]

Ain't seal team 6 based at Virginia beach? Maybe they got lazy and dumped Osama there...and he washed up?

LMAO!

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Reminds me of one from 10 years ago....

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-25/news/mn-1000_1_sidewinder-missile

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

I believe SEAL team 6 is out of Dam Neck. I was there once for a month and a half. NMIC....interesting place.

 

[Monty]

I was stationed at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, Libya in the early 1960s before Ghadafi took over. The base beach was located in one of the areas where the Italian and German armies fled Libya in WWII. Of course the allied forces was bombing them as they fled and every now and then someone snorkling would find an unexploded bomb. They'd close the beaches for a few hours while the EOD guys went out and blew the bombs up. It made an interesting splash to say the least. Monty

 

[hanoverdigger]

Here's one for ya... about 12 years ago I stopped off at Buckroe Beach to do some metal detecting. There was another detectorist there and he showed me a shell that he had just dug up. I said "neat find" and continued to detect. About a half hour later all sorts of military and police showed up. The closed the beach down,roped it off, and we had to leave. It was all in the news the following day. They took the shell away from the guy and blew it up at an undisclosed location.

 

[Monty]

Must have been an artillery shell. You are apt to find a few at any old range. We found unfired 2.75 rockets on our AF weapons range all the time. On New Years day at the turn of midnight we would shoot them off into the desert to celebrate when I was in Libya. Monty

 

[Richard Ray]

Monty:
My old running buddy and I found a couple PRACTICE four deuce mortor rounds. So at midnight on Christmas we made a tube and fired them down by Galveston Bay. In about 10 minutes the fire department and Sheriff showed up asking questions. Lucky we lived way out in the country and they never found out it was us and nobody got hurt, they exploded in the water but sure made a loud BOOM... NOT one of the smartest things we ever did. Young and dumb is my only excuse....
Richard