any military folks familiar with this? PICS ARE WORKING NOW (i think)

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Please tell me pics attached this time! One of our employees' family members works at a place that refurbishes military equipment (sounds like a sweet gig). He was nice enough to get me this. Im not sure what it was used for nor have I had much time to look it over. I just know its pretty darn neat. You all may be pretty familiar with this type container and i'd like to know any details if you are. I was hoping it was full of ordnance of some type but no such luck (maybe RPGs) LOL. Now if i can only get some ammo to put in it :)

FYI i was previously ColonelKernel but am hereby dubbed "Potatohead"...Thanks!!!
 

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The website where the guy works is www.thecmp.org (if im reading his writing correctly) if anyone wants to ck it out. They may sell these containers or have info on them, i havent had time to ck yet. I'm going outside to get it off the truck now and will ck posts in a bit. Thanks everyone!

PS Any ideas on how to get my wife to agree to let me put this in our room would be appreciated!
 
The text looks like Greek. I'd imagine it's an ammo crate for all that Greek "HXP" head-stamped .30-'06 M2 ball ammo CMP has been selling for years.
 
The translation of the inscription is:

Greek Army
Rifle Container
G3A3
10 Pieces

Now you need 10 G3 rifles to fill it!

Edited to add: Based on the label in the corner, the box was used to ship 20 M1 rifles (listed by serial number?) back to the U.S. Interesting that an M1 rifle apparently takes 1/2 the shipping space of a G3 (or maybe that the M1's were less carefully packed than the G3's?).
 
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AlexanderA, That's impressive.

PS Any ideas on how to get my wife to agree to let me put this in our room would be appreciated!
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Sure, just do it and if she says anything, just tell her "I'm the man and I make the rules". Please report back. :)
 
Greek characters, not Cyrillic, and plainly marked G3 A3.

I'm thinking this was at least originally used to pack HK rifles. I could be wrong (been years since I had reason to consult Jane's manuals) but I seem to recall G3 variants being made under license by the Greeks, Turks, and Iranians.

Edit: AlexanderA is too fast for me....
 
Yes, the G3 is the standard Greek Army rifle and has been produced since about 1977 under license from H&K by the government-owned Hellenic Arms Industry (which merged with Pyrkal in 2003-4 to form a new company, Hellenic Defense Systems). (Pyrkal was the traditional Greek ammo maker, and also made FAL rifles under license from FN. The FAL lost out in the government competition to the G3.) Even though the G3 is still the standard, the Greek Army is using growing numbers of M16's. They also use M1's for ceremonial purposes.

Some of the Greek-made G3's were imported into the U.S., in semiautomatic form, in the early 1980's. H&K soon shut down this operation as a violation of its licensing agreement.
 
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Well, I think its a....
Hummm, better look at the pictures again....
Yes, yes, I am almost sure.....
Its a box!
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Thx for your post folks. Im having a work emergency so i havent really had time to read all posts. Thx for posting. Especially the guy who said its a box LOL. Maybe i jumped the gun posting about it but i thought it was pretty neat. My wife, not so much-its now at the foot of our bed
 
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Thx for your post folks. Im having a work emergency so i havent really had time to read all posts. Thx for posting. Especially the guy who said its a box LOL. Maybe i jumped the gun posting about it but i thought it was pretty neat. My wife, not so much-its now at the foot of our bed
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...soon to be joined by you...
 
Yes, the Greeks and their arms manufacturer EBO produced G3 and HK-91 clones, using tooling which they purchased from HK. And I do mean clones, as they are, as far as I can tell, EXACTLY the same as the HK-made models except for the manufacturer's stamp. I think they are the only G3 copies that are 100% faithful to the original, as all the others I have seen have some differences/inferiorities. I have a Greek HK-91, imported to the US by Springfield under the designation "SAR-8". It's a great rifle. (Later model "SAR-8" rifles had cast receivers and are NOT the same as the Greek-made one.)
 
Here's the story in brief: G3 rifles come into Greece in crates, rifles are removed, M1 rifles are put into the crates, crates are shipped to the US, US government sells the rifles to lucky CMP members. I bought two, a Springfield and an H&R, late last year. Great rifles.

That crate would make a great coffee table in the man cave, dontcha think? :D:D:D
 
medalguy said:
Here's the story in brief: G3 rifles come into Greece in crates, rifles are removed, M1 rifles are put into the crates, crates are shipped to the US, US government sells the rifles to lucky CMP members. I bought two, a Springfield and an H&R, late last year. Great rifles.

That crate would make a great coffee table in the man cave, dontcha think? :D:D:D
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That sounds like a Greek version of the French connection. ;)
 
"PS Any ideas on how to get my wife to agree to let me put this in our room would be appreciated!"

Maybe paint it pink and put a row of daisy decals across the front. (Might also deter burgulars.)
 
You'd be amazed at how much that box probably cost. At the defense contractor where I worked, we had a carpentry shop to manufacture similar ones for shipping our stuff overseas. Like everything mil-spec, there were a lot of very specific manufacturing requirements. And all the wood had to undergo a special heat treatment (and be stamped by a certified inspector) so we didn't export any termites or other bugs to the countries we were blowing up.
 
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