What a load of crap! I was never stationed on a post where I had access or needed access to my weapon. The only time I was under arms was when I was issued a sidearm to guard the Ammo Depot at Ft. Bliss. I had my own personal pistol kept in the arms room and I had to sign it out just like I did my M-16. One benefit to having an M1911 signed into the arms room was that the armorer changed out the firing pin, barrel and grips from left over parts.
‘twas that way when I was in too.
Except when I found out that my BAR 7 Mag, plus ammo, had been used without my permission...
Rules aren’t the same for all of the people, as you’ve no doubt figured out by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u0Byq5Qis
"Suzanna Gratia Hupp explains meaning of 2nd Amendment! "
Getting tired of civilians with NO knowledge making stupid comments about being armed on a military base.
***I had my own personal pistol kept in the arms room and I had to sign it out just like I did my M-16****
The same for me. The Master at Arms later told me he hoped I would be shipped out in the middle of the night and not be able to retreive my pistol. Then HE would get to keep it!
I then found place off base to store it.
You and I served in another time. We didn’t have terrorists who vowed to kill us as fellow soldiers.
I have no problem with military personnel with CCW license being allowed to carry anywhere, on base or off in these “modern” times.
Things were not always that way Bad Jack. In the USMC right up until the M-16 was a Standard Issue we always had access to our rifles. Some of us even had ready access to our Issue M3 Grease Guns which were mounted on the uprights of our racks.
It was about the time of good old Patricia Hearst and her gang of cut throats that the issue of the Marines having ready access to their arms became a concern. Some of her gang members came aborad USMC Base Camp Pendleton and made off with a slew of the Grease guns which caused the Comandant to tighten up the access to the guns.
If you had brought your pistol to my armory, we would have given it back to you in Match Condition.
Semper Fi
An Old Man
” I was never stationed on a post where I had access or needed access to my weapon.”
Well, it seems times they are a changin’.
WHO STILL BELIEVES THAT CHANGE IS NOT NEEDED?
WHO STILL BELIEVES THAT OUR SOLDIERS DO NOT DESERVE BETTER PROTECTION CONSIDERING THE FESTERING JIHAD TERRORIST CLIMATE?
According to an intelligence source speaking to the Northeast Intelligence Network, forensic analysis of Nidal Malik HASAN’s computer and other media determined that HASAN had routinely visited al Qaeda and Islamic terrorist web sites in months and weeks leading to last week’s massacre at Fort Hood.
According to this investigative source, HASAN also downloaded material from the web site operated by former Dar al Hijrah mosque leader and terrorist facilitator Anwar Nasser al Awlaki. As reported here, al Awlaki was an imam at the Dar al Hijrah mosque in Fall Church, Virginia in 2001, where he advised and facilitated two of the 9/11 terrorists in the months prior to the attacks. Al Awlaki also counseled HASAN during that same period
The information obtained from HASAN’s digital files reportedly shows a “pattern of deliberate and willful planning to conduct some type of attack against the U.S. military prior to his deployment” [to Afghanistan], stated this source who requested anonymity as he is not authorized to speak publicly. “The motive behind the massacre appears to be rooted in his ideology, an ideology which was emboldened by online activity,” added this source. As indicated by a ABC News Online article, intelligence sources reportedly had a level of knowledge that HASAN was in communication with al Qaeda assets abroad. The source speaking to this author confirmed that report but went further, stating that this and information similar but not directly related to such communications became a “political issue” between government agencies and officials “at the policy making levels” of the administration.