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Originally Posted by JBS...
Military police are the only ones that are in possession of weapons all others are locked down. How long did it take for the the MP to confront him.... 20 mins?
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Would you prefer everybody, including the 20% returning from Iraq with PTSD/depression, to be armed? It would make Dodge City look like a kindergarten class.
I spent three years in Fulda, Germany during the height of the Cold War (the place where WWIII was projected to start if the balloon went up). American soldiers who patrolled the East German border did so with empty weapons. Their ammunition remained in a sealed box in their vehicles. They faced an Article 15 (dishonorable) discharge if the seal on their ammo boxes were broken when returning to base from patrol (and it was inspected every time). They didn't want to risk a trigger-happy GI starting WWIII. This should tell you how much the military trusts GI's with loaded weapons outside a war zone.
04-03-2014, 05:30 PM
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