Pair of guided missile containers found in Pacific Ocean near Alaska

Two lafrge shipping containers, stamped with the words “Contains: Guided Missile,” were discovered in the Pacific Ocean near Alaska Sunday.

Alaska State Troopers said the containers were empty, and information from tags attached to the boxes was sent to the U.S. military. There was no immediate public comment from military officials.

Pair of guided missile containers found in Pacific Ocean near Alaska

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Is this normal military protocol to throw these boxes in the ocean?

Maybe they fell overboard off a Navy ship?

ISIS about to shoot down an airliner?

Sarah Palin just having some target practice fun?

a reply to: Signals

Troopers say an explosives ordinance team helped determine the boxes were "void of their original contents."

Well thank GOODNESS for their expertise!!!!

a reply to: Signals

I would assume it isn't normal protocol to throw away these containers.
I have bought used military equipment before,such as duffel bags and
whatever.

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a reply to: Signals

Live fire drills, trainees, empty containers on deck blown overboard by a sudden gust of wind.

EOS

Washed up from Japan tsunami?

a reply to: Signals

ISIS steals submarine to hunt for lost missiles lol

a reply to: Quantum12

Ahh,maybe you just suggested a new movie idea for hollywood.
"In Search Of The Lost Nukes".

a reply to: mamabeth

Or a kitty that ate cookies and got fat so she had to shop for a fur

I know you get it lol

a reply to: mamabeth

I like your idea!!

a reply to: Signals

They were from the 70s and 80s

I think it's probably likely that these are remnants from one of the several military sites in the area, this is the most rational explanation.

Now on Drudge....I wonder if Matt is an ATSer?

Perhaps discarded during the Northern Edge war games which were held in June of last year.

a reply to: theantediluvian

Sounds plausible but I imagine they are not supposed to discard garbage in the ocean.

Turn it over. It says Acme Guided Missile Company .

a reply to: vonclod

On April 15, federal prosecutors announced that Princess Cruise Lines had pleaded guilty to illegal ocean dumping and would be fined $500,000.

Late at night, during a 1991 cruise, crew members tossed 20 bags of plastic trash into waters off the Florida coast. A passenger recorded the incident on videotape.

But even as environmentalists and congressional leaders praised the tough prosecution, sailors on U.S. Navy ships were throwing hundreds of bags containing the same kind of garbage into oceans all over the world and sailing away scot-free.

Protected by exemptions in federal laws, the Navy estimates its 452 ships will dump about 1.2 million pounds of plastic overboard this year - trash that private vessels must keep on board.

"The Navy is being a good steward of the environment," said spokeswoman Lt. Jackie Yost. "We're trying to lead the way."

Link

Leads the way in plastic pollution....

a reply to: theantediluvian

Sounds plausible ....

a reply to: roadgravel

That is pretty distressing, between that and high energy sonar they seem to be trying to destroy what is left in the ocean.

a reply to: vonclod

This might shed some light on the origin of that giant island of plastic in the Pacific.

a reply to: roadgravel

I have read between 4.7 -12.7 million metric tons added every year from all sources..sickening stat.

a reply to: Signals

Probably military surplus containers? Someone on an on line newspaper comments section thinks he recognises them as AIM-54 Phoenix transport and storage containers. When the missiles were retired the likes of the storage containers would be sold off as surplus. Probably lost or fallen off a fishing vessel using them as storage? The military sell off all sorts of surplus containers.