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B-173708 1 (1971-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjhd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: !vr. F,, . . ~. n,,-rovPt by the£ I,,-4 ol which Is kept WASIINOTON, D.C, tOSAt , o ?.0 B-173708 o CT11 71 Dear Mr. Udall: We have investigated the allegation which you forwarded to us on July 20, 1971, that 5,56 mm blank ammunition used in M-16 rifles had been wasted during training exercises con- ductod by the Army's S29th Military Intelligence Company at Port Hood, Texas, NWe reviewed pertinent regulations, records, and proce- dures and interviewed personnelof the 529th Military Intel- y. ligence Company and Headquarters, III Corps and Fort Hood, As you requested, we did not disclose the identity of the in- c3 formant. V The incident described in the informant's letter did oc- \r.The commanding officer of the company admitted that some 5.56 mm blank ammunition had been fired needlessly, but he contended that only 7,500 to 10,000 rounds, valued between $450 and $600, were involved rather than the 22,000 rounds reported. We could not verify the amounts because of .the lack of documentary evidence. At the time the incident occurred, the 529thMilitary Intelligence Company had theresponsibility of providing prisoner-interrogator training. Included in this training was a 1-week field exercise designed to provide the troops with some degree of realism as to what to expoct when they were assigned to field interrogation duty in Vietnam. Dur- ing the field exercises aggressors attacked the-compounds in an attempt to liberate the prisoners. Blank ammunition was used in the attacks and defense of the compounds. Six classes of active and Reserve Army personnol have completed the interrogator-training program in the last-year, and no future classes are planned. The informant attended the fifth class. Several factors contributed to company ordered more ammunition class was much smaller than had S'~ ~ ~ ~~~e aQet o1'hic 0 ~0/) 4on the incident reported. than it shduld have, been planned, and a Lwa, SI- ... -. &TIANNIVERSARs 1921-1971 b, v A. The the ,. (0 da, 6 q I

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