No brass , no ammo Drill Sargent!!!!!!

It's a little extra work to remove the military crimp from the primer pocket, but worth it.

Once ago We use to buy those barrels And Spend many hours sorting

Heavy sigh.

@@amsb4dafunk558 you still can you just have to know how.

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I hated being 11M... 😂

Damn, what a pain in the A$$... Meanwhile, here in France, we only cared for the casings and links. And we used a sort of modified lawn mower to catch them by lots at a time (like the little machine they use on beaches to clean them from pollution and debris, sorry I don't find the name in english).

too bad that checklist already exists for the airlines :/

Boeing isn’t operating the planes though

@@ThisFriggenGuy-li5ui Neither is the FAA, but look at the mess they did, btw...

Maybe they spent all the money for that forklift. Apparently, bag of bushes cost 90k, so the forklift probably a small fortune

That's because Obama is their fren.

Yup

well, the one guy is so overweight what else can he do I cannot believe he is even in the military when i was in if you was even a few pounds over weight and did not correct it fast you was kicked out period no questions asked it just happened.

At first I thought that guy had to be a civilian contractor cause he was so fat and old...but then I saw the air force insignia. Then it all made sense. 🤣

It might have some similarities to industrial applications, but it’s nowhere near being a “factory worker”. Those are just reservists doing reclamation tasks.

My father was on a destroyer escort and they were expected to recover as many shells as possible from the 5 inch, 3 inch, guns to keep the deck clear. Ammo was so valuable that when they were with minesweepers and they mines would be cut loose and float in the water the captain would line sailors along the rail with 03 Sprinfield bolts in 30-06 ti shoot the mines because the 50 cal and larger were to valuable. I don't know if you have ever shit at a bobbing object from a bobbing ship but it made my father one hell of a good shot.

The video explained that prime condition cartridge cases were sent for reloading, and damaged cases were shredded prior to being recycled as raw material.

@@webtoedman I've never heard of once fired brass being reloaded in the army facility. Can you give me information where that takes place?

@@notyou6950 E mail US army public relations. They might send you some stickers too.

When I worked at DRMO back in the 90s, we sorted brass into two piles. Dented and otherwise garbage brass got crushed to be sold as scrap. Brass that could be reloaded went into a different barrel and sold to a contractor who paid quite well for it. This is where your once fired military brass on the civilian market came from. As for reloading? Usually the marksmanship teams loaded their own ammo. We'd never see their brass intact. They sent it to us crushed already. Wasn't serviceable. But I don't remember any reloaded ammo in the military. Was always factory new.

@@donwyoming1936 that was my understanding of the process. I was on the receiving end of the once fired brass. The sniper guys used different calibers in more modern selection to cook their own loads. Lake City made match brass for sniper application in .308. I love to find some of that brass because it was best quality for my own needs.

That was the material that is used to fill the containers that sit behind the targets in a gun range. It is a kind of rubber granule, and it stops the bullets, and they drop down through to the bottom of the container. After awhile, they pick the containers up, take them to that facility, tip them out, and then soldiers come along with that vacuum. It is strong enough to pick up the rubber, but not strong enough to pick up the denser lead bullets. The rubber piles up, as we saw, and then they sweep up the bullets, and put the rubber back into the boxes, and take them back to the range. Do I know this is true?. Of course not. Did I use my common sense to come to what almost certainly IS true?. Yep.

it's something they can't fully prevent tho they could but that adds more stuff onto a ship and if you could take out the spent shell it's faster for reloading to eject it than of course putting it back into it's own storage of used casings

There is no “reloading” being performed anywhere in this video….

Unless you're talking about rounds fired at the FOBs, I seriously doubt any brass was recovered at outposts or during tactical movements and firefights, that's just not a thing to "police" in after action in hot zones....

A lot of those were reservists or civilian contractors

It’s all they can get with the way they treat our veterans 😢

You think that's interesting, you'd go crazy at all the lost ammo & brass laying around Fort Liberty & Camp Lejeune. I wouldn't be surprised there's 100k spent casings per acre. And crates full of new MREs just left out in the middle of nowhere. Not sure why they there. Preposition or left behind.

Old WW2 bases are the best to find old shit

Exactly. Got time to lean, got time to clean up brass!

This is something they do like once a month. No need for an expensive machine. Gives them Ammo dogs something to do for once.

thank god i thought i was being to fussy. there process got me laughing. honestly thought they were taking the piss at one point. is this why places like nasa cant get anything done?

@@donwyoming1936 and every other military base is doing the same so lots of bullets so deserves a finer tuned system. i mean come on im just a normal joe and it was soo obvious to me. waste of tax payer money

Yes, I just saw this in another comment on it. It happens 😮

They do pick up the brass….they clearly said in the video that range sweeps are performed. As far as “reloading”, yeah, that doesn’t happen. Cartridges are made from scratch at the plants and facilities across the country.

Ideally when possible the cartridge is in good condition so all that’s necessary is cleaning, resizing, repriming, and then a reload. It takes a lot more energy to melt it down and make a new cartridge but of course that’s the only option for damaged cartridges. A while back I remember reading a news article about a new contract ( USAF I think) where certain calibers were not actually reloaded and were instead melted down and remade, the reason was never listed but my suspicion was a higher failure rate in those calibers with reloads as opposed to new. Your average grunt can clear a misfire no problem but that’s a lot harder if the misfire is the multi barrel cannon in a fighter. I assume the various branches have endless data on failure rates, costs, and analysis for cost vs risk of a service member being caught with an inoperable weapon.

@@cruisinguy6024 you can't melt down brass

Plus a rotary cannon spits out dud rounds automatically

​@@SoacwiththafaceWhy not?

@@jacobravenwood7968 very toxic not really sure if u can reuse molds easily either most brass just gets reloaded or it goes back into the earth or becomes a horn or something 🎺

Its the military way,,, dig a hole ,,, and then fill it up,, keep busy

Its the military way,,, dig a hole ,,, and then fill it up,, keep busy

Its the military way,,, dig a hole ,,, and then fill it up,, keep busy

@@vonbuzz9009 It shows overmanning then. I appreciate that Soldiers need to be kept busy (the Devil makes work for idle hands and all that) but this suggests that the US Military could save a bundle of cash by shedding manpower from trivial jobs like this and have them done by unskilled civilians that haven't cost hundreds of thousands of Dollars to train? Or automate the process and save even more money. But I get it, the US Military isn't like other forces around the world......

Pentagon has never had to answer for inefficiencies. I guess people get some sort of a job, and thats the only point of it I think.

Oddly, I think that's all I've ever heard of them being referred to, that or a spent cartridge.

Bronze is much better for casting.

@@russellgilson3536 I like casting all sorts of soft metals. Besides you can just add alloying chemicals in the crucible when it's all molten anyways.

The Military doesn’t reuse their Ammo doomy. It’s Shot once and then the spent Brass casings are Sold at Government auctions for n bulk.

Streamlining the system would take away jobs from overpaid civilian defense contractors.

Dude - it's a US military facility. It's tradition.

Free labour and no incentive for production, its military.

I agree. This is caveman style.

It’s the government 🤷‍♂️

It's the government, inefficient is what they do!

You can get steel cased ammunition, but brass is typically what you make cases from, brass is just flexible enough to expand ever so slightly when fired, this expansion (when inside a chamber) is called obturation, and helps seal the expanding gases from the burning gun powder from leaving the chamber rear wards and forces the bullet down the barrel, afterwards the brass is soft enough to shrink back down to its original size so it can be extracted from the chamber, metallurgy speaking, brass just happens to have the right properties for expansion and shrinkage without breaking

I agree. The process described could be automated. Given the volume, there would be significant cost savings.

​@@roderickdunn3464recycling plants are oddly labor intensive. But I agree with your comments.

@@roderickdunn3464 I am very curious why they haven't thought about that yet. I wonder if anybody has approached them and offered to help them design a process that would speed up that operation?

They are dealing with only half a dozen options, so screening could sort out the high volume items. (Used casings by size) The balance could be handled in a separate stream. The complexity comes in when you have to grade the used casings. The simple solution would be to melt them down for remanufacture. My guess is at the moment they are using troops as cheap labour, hence the labour intensive approach. Poor use of resources.

It's to assure no live cartriges made it thru collection. It get chopped up to release any powder.