Wacky Personal Items/Contraband Found at Encampent

[Spaceman3750]

As inspired by and spun off of a spinoff thread...

Unfortunately, I have nothing more to contribute than clicking "New Topic".

[HGjunkie]

I knew a cadet who brought a leatherman multi-tool to encampment one time. He couldn't figure out why it was taken away...

[Ryan]

There was a cadet at the last encampment I attended that brought a camera that had to be worth upwards of a thousand dollars. Not really contraband but we were like "Umm...No." Had to lock it up in a safe container for the whole week.

[Eclipse]

Goldbond Medicated foot powder.

About 1 kilo.

In a zip lock bag.

Looked pretty much like this ↓



((*sigh*))

[DC]

Goldbond Medicated foot powder.

About 1 kilo.

In a zip lock bag.

Looked pretty much like this ↓

((*sigh*))

I bet someone had a heart attack when they pulled it out of the cadet's bag. 

How long did it take to verify that it was foot powder and not heroin or something?

[Eclipse]

This was a staff cadet that we all knew personally, but when I saw the thing from across the room I about
had a baby right out my ear.

The "best" part was that the cadet in question (probably reading this right now), pulled it out with a big smile
and a "think this will be a problem?" look on his face.

We pointed out to him that the only thing worse than doing something dumb, is telling everyone about it...

[MICT1362]

This last summer I spent 2-3 days doing shake downs at an NCSA.  We always give the cadets an opportunity to declare any items that they know they have.  It looks better on their part if they tell us they have them as opposed to us finding something rolled up in a sock. 

First of two issues was a cadet with a butterfly knife.  After a good minute of just staring at the knife, then the cadet, back to the kinfe, etc, etc, we asked him how he got it there.  He said he had it with him when he got on the plane...  Puzzled, we asked why they didn't take it.  He said that they weren't illegal where he was from (I don't remember which state).  We were still shocked.

Second issue was another knife.  This time I almost lost the top of my finger in the process.  Cadet declared a knife.  When he handed it to me, it didn't really look like a knife, rather a small black rectangle.  Assuming (and we know what that does...) that it was like most newer pocket knifes, I figure that the little flicker on the abck pushed the blade out the side.  I had placed my finger over both ends of the knife so as to have control of the rotating blade.  Literally, milliseconds before I pushed the button, the cadet burst out with "I wouldn't do that!".  I stopped and proceeded to treat the knife like a bomb.  Ended up being a switch blade, which would have shot right throught my finger.  Again, knife was on his person while boarding a plane. 

Made for an interesting day.

-Paramedic

[JC004]

We had an interesting experience with the location of and then dealing with an item at CLS.  I was a tac officer and was locking up the barracks after the cadets had left for the morning.  As I walked down to the last door, the floor began to vibrate.  I thought to myself "that shouldn't be."  I located the source of the vibration which I discovered was also flashing.  I peaked into the compartment and there was a phone.  I grabbed it and gave it to the C/CC. 

Since phones were prohibited for students, the senior commander decided to call the cadet into his office and asked him personally if he had any contraband.  The cadet insisted that he did not - continuously.  Now, when an activity commander calls you in personally to his office as a student just to ask you AGAIN if you have any contraband, you should probably sense that something isn't right and admit it.  Not this cadet.  After the phone was produced, excuses were also produced.  FAIL.

[IceNine]

We had a cadet once that was a magician.  He came through bag check and was cleared. We had at the time a VERY thorough TAC commander so it didn't get past him.

Then all of a sudden the cadet staff was finding food wrappers all over the bay.  Then they found cookies, pudding cups, fruit, etc.  This stuff was showing up under the trash can liners, in the washers, on top of emergency lights even.

  We decided to start a random pocket check after meals sometimes walking out of the galley, sometimes right before coming back into the ship, etc.  During one of these checks a half eaten cookie (dessert was forboden) just appeared on the ground.  This was in spite of the fact that all of the TAC officers and the executive staff were eyes on the entire time.

  Turns out it was one cadet producing the entire lot.  It took the entire weekend to narrow it down, and that was with a seasoned police officer guiding the investigations and stake outs.

[ol'fido]

As I said in the other thread, the flare gun was a real head scratcher. My first year back at encampment as a senior member, I was detailed to shake down cadet staff that had already arrived and were already in the billets. Basically, shutting the barn door after the departure of the horse. But anyway....opened up one female flight commanders wall locker. There were no female seniors available to do this. Anyway, open up the locker and there are bottles and bottles of pills, powders, and I don't know what all. The CC and the MO were called. The flight commander said she was on some sort of gluten free, organic, yadda, yadda, etc. diet. The MO checked and said it was indeed all organic and not dangerous so the CC let her keep it.

Also, just as head-scratching as some of the things you find in baggage checks are some of the things you don't find. Such as going all through a cadet's bags for a WEEK long encampment and only finding one extra pair of underwear.

[addo1]

We had a cadet once that was a magician.  He came through bag check and was cleared. We had at the time a VERY thorough TAC commander so it didn't get past him.

Then all of a sudden the cadet staff was finding food wrappers all over the bay.  Then they found cookies, pudding cups, fruit, etc.  This stuff was showing up under the trash can liners, in the washers, on top of emergency lights even.

  We decided to start a random pocket check after meals sometimes walking out of the galley, sometimes right before coming back into the ship, etc.  During one of these checks a half eaten cookie (dessert was forboden) just appeared on the ground.  This was in spite of the fact that all of the TAC officers and the executive staff were eyes on the entire time.

  Turns out it was one cadet producing the entire lot.  It took the entire weekend to narrow it down, and that was with a seasoned police officer guiding the investigations and stake outs.

Wow, that sounds quite interesting. I am (actually) an illusionist and always bring a large back of tricks with me as a reward for my staff during any down time, but this is something that I would have liked to see haha... 

[Eclipse]

  Turns out it was one cadet producing the entire lot.  It took the entire weekend to narrow it down, and that was with a seasoned police officer guiding the investigations and stake outs.

Quote:  "Somebody needs to man up about these cookies!"

[davidsinn]

  Turns out it was one cadet producing the entire lot.  It took the entire weekend to narrow it down, and that was with a seasoned police officer guiding the investigations and stake outs.

Quote:  "Somebody needs to man up about these cookies!"

Gwaltney? Little odd, but good man.

[Eclipse]

No, Ron couldn't make it - gent named Long, my current CD.

[Major Lord]

My son found a Cadet with several hundred condoms in an encampment in-processing. ( You have got to admire his optimism....) Personally, the oddest thing I found came during inspection of the heads ( bathrooms) during a BCS,  where I found a brass pipe with apparent marijuana residue and several packs of cigarettes and matches weighted down in a Ziplock baggie and sunk in the water tank of an old-fashioned toilet. Other than that, just the usual assortment of knives, pornography, and foodstuffs.

Major Lord

[HGjunkie]

My son found a Cadet with several hundred condoms in an encampment in-processing. ( You have got to admire his optimism....) Personally, the oddest thing I found came during inspection of the heads ( bathrooms) during a BCS,  where I found a brass pipe with apparent marijuana residue and several packs of cigarettes and matches weighted down in a Ziplock baggie and sunk in the water tank of an old-fashioned toilet. Other than that, just the usual assortment of knives, pornography, and foodstuffs.

Major Lord

Condoms are great water holders for survival situations.....

Wait a second, that doesn't add up. 

[REDahms]

NC Encampment 2009 Camp Lejeune

I was inspecting a cadets things and found a full scale poker set. Cards and chips. When asking him why it was in his bag he stated, "My parents packed my bag."

[manfredvonrichthofen]

When I was at encampment as a first timer there was a surprise barracks inspection and they found nothing at all. Everyone was clean. Until they decided to inspect the latrines for cleanliness just as they were walking out of the latrine they spotted a thin strand of fishing line sticking out of a ceiling tile against the back wet wall behind the toilets. They went to inspect the suspicious line and found a large ziploc bag full of cigarettes and dip along with a few lighters. They didn't have any sort of idea how to prove who owned the bag and its contents so it went unpunished. They didn't even have the slightest clue as to who it was because they couldn't even smell the smoke or dip on anyone. It is too bad, I would have loved to hear what the excuse would have been for that one.

[SABRE17]

at my basic encampment one of my roommates had his shoe shine kit in a bag with a bio hazard logo on it, he said his sister worked at some clinic...

needless to say the cadet commander gave the cadet a high five for something he had never seen before, then promptly ordered that it be covered up with duct tape.   

[Dad2-4]

Had a cadet check in to wing winter encampment with a duffle bag full with 2 or 3 cases of Ensure nutrition drink. His parents were on hand and explained that the boy had severe ongoing stomach problems and needed the drinks to get proper nutrition since he often can't eat regular food. The kicker: when asked why none of this was on his medical forms the parents said they didn't want it to show up anywhere in his recoreds since he was planning on attending the USAF Academy and such information might keep him out.