It's a silly notion
Then why not just post a jawaan or two to supervise these??????
its the responsibility of the soldier that fires these. i have a friend, whose father worked as a manager at one of the weapons station during kargil war. even during / in-between an intense war, the soldiers should write into the register, the no. of magazines and cartridges they take from the weapons station. of course there is no need to collect shells during any kind of conflict, however the count of the rounds & magazine no. is extremely important along with the stock no. of the rifle carried by soldier.
there are punishments for different things, including different saluting with and without uniforms.
they will be made to run long tracks for the wrong type of salute.
in the case of cartridges, if you loose, they will help you search for it, but if not found, they will thrash you with huge wooden logs. the other soldiers will beat the crap out of you with large wooden logs as a punishment. of course, the intensity will be less if you are innocent. but if found guilty of selling these cartridges to any civilians, it will be horrible.
this is also one of the reasons, why women are not allowed into frontline combat roles in indian army( don't know about airforce) . they don't train with that much discipline or harshness, hence IA always did not support women in front-lines, until supreme court gave orders. he said.
and further his father(weapons station manager) freaked out
when some of the soldiers broke into the weapons stations shop floor and literally looted whatever heavy weapons they could find and charged uphill with RPG-22's and carl gustav RCL MK II's to destroy pak army. one soldier was carrying 5 rockets like they were some bananas and ran into the front lines like a madman
without writing weapons in the register.
it was the responsibility of his father to make those soldiers write they no. of weapons/magazines/mortars/rockets/ rounds they took from that particular station.
now good luck remembering their faces.
of course no one was punished cuz its was a war. and that too in 1999.
& thats why its better to use your hats to collect these so called " bread crumbs" as one noob
was calling these shells as such.
