sensitive item

The definition of a sensitive item is a piece of equipment or an item that is potentially harmful or hazardous or is of high monetary value and easily converted to unauthorized use or disposal. In the military it is extremely important to keep up meaning take charge of and know the location of the item at all times. Never should a sensitive item be left unsecured or unsupervised, or placed in the hands or someone not authorized to care for such sensitive items. A Sensitive item is an item such as a weapon and any attachments such as PEQ-15 and ACOG. Sensitive items are often valuable high cost items. Failure to keep up with such sensitive items can result in many different possibilities including but not limited to; requirement for the individual to pay out of pocket for the item lost which on a soldiers pay could be very very costly and effect their life in a very negative way, Actions taken through uniform code of military justice such as general discharge, other than honorable discharge and even dishonorable discharge from the military. This could cost the individual the military benefits normally entitled to veterans, and tarnishing his or her future job possibilities. These actions are only a few of the possibilities for action when a soldier fails to keep up with his or her sensitive item. When a soldier fails to keep up with his or her sensitive item it effects more than just that specific soldier, it affects any and all soldiers around them. If a soldier fails to keep up with his item it can result in serious injury even in some cases death to that soldier as well as other soldiers and civilians. For example; if while deployed in country a soldier places his or her weapon down walks away out of sight from it, and leaves it aimlessly lying unattended and unsupervised the weapon is now available for anyone to pick up. Then if the weapon were to be discovered by hostiles in that area (or even just by a passing child) that hostile (or child) now has the