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Article: Military plastic explosive hits black market
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 23, 1989
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EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. A powerful blast last year ripped
apart the truck of an AWOL explosives technician and sent local Air
Force personnel scrambling to check supplies for missing explosives.
An audit showed the technician, Sgt. Donald Lunger, who was
killed in the explosion, had altered paperwork and pilfered 11 pounds
of the plastic explosive C-4 from Eglin Air Force Base.
It was not the first time Eglin has had to check on its C-4
supplies. A year earlier a reservist at Eglin's Duke Field was
convicted of stealing C-4.
Last February, two Niceville, Fla., boys found seven pounds of
C-4 in a wooded area near their home. Eglin officials retrieved and
destroyed it. It is still ...