Posted on 03/01/2018 11:33:04 AM PST by marktwain
One of the Second Amendment themes Candidate Donald Trump campaigned on was that military personnel should not be made into disarmed and helpless victims.
President Trump said on Friday, 23 February, he would be reviewing the current policies about military personnel carrying personal defensive firearms. From military.com:
President Donald Trump said Friday that he would review policies that keep troops from carrying personal weapons onto military bases.
“If we can't have our military holding guns, it's pretty bad,” Trump said in a wide-ranging speech to the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Maryland, “and I'm going to look at that whole policy on military bases.”
“So we want to protect our military. We want to make our military stronger and better than it's ever been,” Trump continued in the speech, in which he also renewed his call for allowing trained teachers and military retirees to carry concealed weapons in schools.
When I joined the U.S. Army on active service, I had been competing in university pistol competitions for four years. I knew more about pistol shooting and the civilian use of deadly force than my non-commissioned officer instructors. But, as a commissioned officer, I was not allowed to carry a personal firearm for self-defense… unless I was acting, as an additional duty, as a military game warden.
It struck me as a ludicrous example of hypocrisy and a direct contradiction of my sworn oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, that I, as a trained military officer,
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I believe they are unarmed at the recruitment centers, also.
“President Trump to Review Ban on Military Personnel Carrying Firearms”
About time. Good.
http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/521056_dodd_2016.pdf
It’s been awhile, so I ask out of ignorance...
Doesn’t everyone draw a weapon and ammo when they get assigned to the next duty station ?
It gives commanders broad authority to limit this for their installations
The Joint Base San Antonio Commander has shut down any non-duty carry of any weapons
Other around the nation have done the same
So bases are ‘may issue states’? OK, time to change them to shall issue.
Amidst all the good and bad that came up in that meeting yesterday President Trump was quite vocal and strong about the absurdity that military bases can’t defend themselves.
I flew in the Navy for 21 years as a bombardier/weapons officer. I was never given the right to any firearm, even in Vietnam. Very strange system.
Thanks marktwain.
I thought we fixed this in 2016 with DoD Directive 5210.56, Arming and the Use of Force.
Purely for show. It was an attempt to claim they were doing something, while insuring that nothing substantial was really done.
It gives commanders the authority to authorize people to carry weapons for defense, but does not require them to do so.
There are a thousand reasons for commanders to refuse to grant soldiers the ability to defend themselves, and almost no incentives for them to do so.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/dod-contingency-for-president-trump.html
Pretty much
But he does not want military personnel under 21 to be able to buy these weapons? I wonder how they will get them?
I flew Marine Corps Prowlers and we flew with 9mm's when over Bosnia. Same with crews over Iraq.
No, he should let his subordinates/commanders deal with this. At this rate of micro-managing, pretty soon he’ll be inspecting the White House rest rooms.
But he does not want military personnel under 21 to be able to buy these weapons? I wonder how they will get them?
I hope people contact him and encourage him to be the candidate we voted for, the one who supported Second Amendment and was wholeheartedly endorsed by NRA.
What does it say about America when those who are trained in the use of firearms to defend the nation are deemed incompetent to carry firearms...?
Except for being in transit, at every duty station, I drew a rifle and ammo...
sorry..meant to include you...see my post 19
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