Joe Jones wrote:
From:    "Joe B. Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Frozen Dead Soldier at Sequoia National Park

My understanding is, once Army property, always Army property (unless
sold
by the Army as surplus).

CORRECT, if you expand to "military": This also includes military materiel 
captured from the military of other nations during armed conflict, such as 
the CSS Hundley, and the captured German munitions we are recovering at the 
Former Nansemond Army Depot in Suffolk, VA, where they are being removed 
after being brought thither and "demilitarized". Remember, when you sign on 
the dotted line, it includes your body.

This is why the Department of Defense remains liable for for its "unexploded 
ordnance" with no time or location limit. The recovery of this dangerous 
material is an unsung public benefit provided by the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers (we get enough bad press as it is).

Tim T.