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would. say this. our marines take. this comes out of their check and it goes to landfill. they don't like to waste nothing either because that's money comes out of their pocket but ever since the war broke out they can't be too friendly because if they're too thinly here they can get blown up. or shows from the street. so much for be good for fifteen twenty years because you know you'll radiation. so that it doesn't corrupt. and if you show it in a combat zone. there's a good cheer it's not trash it's not waste.
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in california's extreme southeast the same bunch that u.s. navy marine corps and british royal air force. them to in iraq and afghanistan would be seen as nothing less than heaven sent by a group of hard bits survivalists the so-called scrappers and range runners who trespass the navy's chocolate mountain bombing and gunnery range in pursuit of salvageable parts missile sections and heavy machine gun ammunition. what follows reflection here is sure to gain entry to the shadowy subs all the while constantly daring four hundred seventy square miles no man's land.
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coming. and you look up and there's one captain on your alpha beta gamma. out there no one. pinpoint your. right now. just a joke. ready for rob and his younger brother ronnie live and nyland a dusty shanty town that backs up to the bombing range they took to the chocolate mountains through team leader risking life and limb when scavenging the military range became their sole means of survival. fueled by plane rap beer and methamphetamine the border of brothers burn their way into the military range it being sunday randy desperately clings to the hope that the fighter bombers
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and helicopter gunships won't be airborne nonetheless there are no certainties in this war zone save for the lethal quality of the landscape. in a range is this please let this be a safe prosperous true. brother going to run a red light. when i drive. my stuff big case my brother scored the other way. roughly seven or eight miles in randy ass and the cameras be turned on on the western edge of the chocolates the navy's elite hunter killer seal teams conduct desert warfare training. you're already going to crash right as we close in on the target of his brother's radek driving increasingly agitates randy. we told. you.
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we will not want to judge trailers you got it was dribble right you know you. didn't see the base the base could see you. tried anybodies it printed. from the base they got their camera experience and they do read the scan on you they know exactly who you are things really big but if they listen dude they would drive right by it. to do that i don't really know what they hear back and you think it's you they think they know way force could be even like it's. like it but they get it but they don't like it. there's a school. in the world the books are going through as though there's no. worries we're sitting around the drinks we jacked up to go the wheels off of because the rooms are made out of aluminum so you take the wheels off and you're going to stick them in the fire and it melts the rubber off talking to people and you've got one
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crushed there's nothing but blue practice bombs here clearly another crew has scoured this tour through its roll over to the runway and it's meanwhile brother ronnie gets his kicks in a vietnam era tank turned target. no you know. if you don't have a gun to. go. down around this corner right here. tell me a big hole in the belly of the truck just stay in the middle of the straddle don't want to try to go around strap.
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oil going to go under running as we're about to leave the runway target u.s. navy f. eighteen c. for morning mark. you know what. there's you know we haven't seen or heard one all day and i'm just going to build where and smoke us people are shot in search of safer territory. randi find something he's anxious to show us. the british anti-tank. this is just one section this seems like five sections each searching has two of these things right here in it cool boom boom boom. that's right there that's all i
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got gulped whoever can dump this was still under gas still gotta live on a little highly explosion some track off a tank it's like i live for one of the good balances and i'm also still kobolds oh i got thought oh look i'm right it's a. small army it's i don't touch that it's randy wants nothing to do with live explosives yet we can't help but think that other scrappers would. be. hard on a couple that's bells on the front. grill out of. you know that's what causes the earthquakes. a bomb went off and then the
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earthquake started. to fill the bottom of the just keep going. just as were sent to the medicine system looking vehicle comes into view randy's breakdown based on the old. or maybe. you know this is the truth this illusion above because you proved guilty you knew you were you know one of your very cheery if you were a got a lower gold you were the
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so one of the locals think a scrappers. they are ladies use all get out. and then they take this little small pot that's the first thing is the first to go down they get this aluminum then you got a big idea but they get the money well then they can use the money up to get the money. for all i can scrap for i don't think a blown out her own not going after her own painting and government property no trespassing and tell you right kind of long term if you got clearance for both legal and life one is dangerous you're not supposed to because there's all the. good stuff they know it doesn't go into. the bunker need to drop. it didn't but if you want their stuff played around with you by a man who went out there and he was crap and i don't even know his name but anyway
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what happened when picked up on one of her sons the type of will bomb off the bomb range right so i took it back to slab saying. this guy supposed to be a twelve year military man experienced in orbit so he beat me on the moment i am not supposed to do that and common sense a lot happened the bomb blew up here and the other guy that was going to hear god i think this guy passed away but he picked up the pieces found creed on my team about my good money and scrappy. dollar and money where i think if you are got bug coalmining he's got one song again or money phone bought. the good took one of the dozen. straight out goods left the way. he was in the back you have the bomb. going off blew your mind i didn't kill you but who just like. the book.
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moving on from the first run with the outlaw brothers we found various layers of local and federal law enforcement tasked with prosecuting scrappers and range runners. gentlemen we. need to remain anonymous. when a scrapper he's been tracking placed an i.e.d. deed or improvised explosive device at his workstation my calexico has been fired chief of nylon california for forty. dial up elation fifteen hundred has no police as first responder likes it bears not only the burden of saving and securing any military ordinance that finds its way into town but also thanklessly risks his own life anyone who's injured or killed in the chocolates at the imperial
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county sheriff's substation in el centro california a half hour's drive south of niland we met investigator deputy coroner charles lucas it's lucas that fire chief mike calls when a scrapper range runner suffers a fatal injury or is in possession of military explosive. one of the very few lie military training areas where a jet can come in off of an aircraft carrier do some live fire training day or night fire rockets drop bombs. they like dropping multiple bombs in that area because. the canyons on both sides muffle the noise and the damage that it does in a town. in one case where they dropped twenty one thousand
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pound bombs on the range. they had based on the theory of window and light bulb and prepare plaster in niland for you know a month. and is one of the poorest communities in california. it's in a neighborhood of eighty five percent below federal poverty level. unemployment sixty percent. every january income per family seven thousand dollars. most cities people a scratch they get some kind of subsistence something from the state or federal government of some type. to california government went from giving to check some of the one check and save and millions and millions of dollars i think it's wrong that
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you give them one check expect them to make that last thirty days and nothing changes they're still spending they're spending twice as much on your spend twice as much on beer at the end seven days they've got to find some source of income they consider going up getting bomb scraps or explosive a good source and. the scrapping has been heavy there are a lot of people who go out there and go for the metal the aluminum and and different things like that and unfortunately some of the explosives when you would have any criminal element scrapper or otherwise that is able to access any significant quantities explosive materials it serves no one's business interest particularly in this climate post nine eleven when we are actually a country of war against terrorism. way.
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way. way. way. out on. one thing about the gunning down bombing range is that it's certain twenty periods that there are quantities of explosive materials out there they drop x. number of bombs well say out of ten bombs maybe one doesn't explode so who knows how many of those are sitting out there. gotta remember the descriptors are
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opportunists if the opportunity presents itself to axis scrap medals for explosives they will do it one particular scrap or retrieve the maverick missile a classified piece of ordinance and removed the explosive payload and where he went with it we don't know the potential for danger to the public is very real it simply highlights the importance of the military and those civilian law enforcement operations supercritical there's a team i've been to court where. oh you're staying where you go and you should fancy. patrols out and how are you going to patrol and fence all of this. i know i told them the. silliest thing they ever did was to. make the fines out of aluminum they're up here scrapping aluminums so much about
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what they're up here for some people here have no scruples don't know nothing. most of them are my friends they don't kill people so i don't say nothing and they've already been caught for other crimes and sent to prison if you know you go right over here by the fish right here. that phone right there are bush a back point of interest because you can't call it a back of a back and go left they have to go go go. to hell thing for stealing their fuel for duration and there's an officer right there so we go this way go go go slowly see this behind i have. some for being single. man worked as a chef into rankle colorado tumbling out to california as low does or he began to rescue any rattlesnakes he found the nile and releasing them on the bombing range he's been bitten one thousand times. i get all this
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stuff you supposed to do out here. you're not supposed to from here and i've learned from that and i sure know what to look out for. twenty millimeter. device. here and here if it went off in my hand it could kill like ten people or main. jet to be flying over and have gaps and you'll. hear the noise and you'll find it in his computer and what they do is. maybe on the ground for about a mile. and there's money but they're touching. the lever second chances everything else in the be ready to commit such just so. i thought for me you really were giving her to try to hurt people. we can make arrangements. and you'd be hoping that the officer there was here to help you.
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begin for the time i got through to come up with you. we harbor convinced the law enforcers to do that there are sleeper cells of terrorist elements in this country today. according to chief michael lexica it ain't rocket science to disassemble unexploded ordinance or you xo to access the plastic explosive easy access to both easy easy access to fiery devices. a smoke grenade to be made into a bomb. that's made into an actual grenade by using a. simple over the mark over the counter devices so i think the potential is there yes w t t v thirteen we can do. we begin tonight with an exclusive
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story we first brought you last night and it all has to do with a major explosives find in imperial county good evening everyone i'm erica is out there with k s m b t news as our top story tonight sheriff's deputies recovered the explosives of ammunition in an island home they say it's the largest illegal ammunition find ever in niland some of it included fifty caliber live machine gun ammo and a r fifteen cluster bombs and the highest houser level before a bomb but it is what i told you that they would rate it is so go that. the. well i tried to get the f.b.i. and a.t.f. involved in it nobody wanted to do that so. we're now blowing everything ourselves with the bomb still and. that was around the time of the convention in palm springs and that's was my concern you know there's. chief mike made
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a frightening connection a major political of that was about to convene in palm springs california eighty miles northwest of niland they were arrested in rooms warm to reset the convention floor and i didn't. and why do you want to this is a. federal government's. rules and many times you'll find people who are law enforcement agencies say well so what if the military's just losing some who cares it's and they just don't really understand that it's more the middle going away. executing a search warrant investigator lucas and shiva lexicon discovered photos and homemade video shot by the family. we saw following the seal came up as the seal team dropped the magazine they would be right behind it they had a video picking the stuff up right and dressed just like the seals. they grew up or nancy they did all drawn blow it up and just pop up bang bang.
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