Specialist furious after finding general’s rifle unattended in latrine
KABUL -- Army Spc. Wyatt Allen was furious Thursday after finding a rifle unattended in a portable latrine on Bagram Air Base, sources say. Allen became even angrier when he discovered that the rifle belong to none other than Gen. Austin S. Miller, the four-star general commanding all US forces in Afghanistan.
"These fucking Delta guys think they can do whatever they want," Allen said, noting that Gen. Miller spent much of his earlier career in the Army's elite, shadowy special operations community. "The M4 was lying in a port-a-shitter, locked and loaded, safety off. Totally unprofessional 'my safety is my trigger finger' bullshit.”
“I would be court-martialed if I tried that.”
Allen later returned the rifle to Gen. Miller during a flightline rendezvous each characterized as “extremely awkward,” but questions remain about what happened in between the discovery of the rifle and its return.
"When I got the rifle back, it smelled like piss, my sling was gone and the optics that were on it d…
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