What’s to prevent a muzzie terrorist from pretending to be standing guard only to turn the weapons on the recruiters? This isn’t completely unreasonable IMHO.
What’s to prevent a muzzie terrorist from pretending to be standing guard only to turn the weapons on the recruiters? This isn’t completely unreasonable IMHO.
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That occurred to me too. The most effective and simplest thing to do is to arm the recruiters but that won’t happen as long as zero is in the white hut.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Obviously the solution would be to allow the recruiters to be armed, but that's not going to happen for the next 18 months, at least.
I agree. I'd add that there is no way of vetting the volunteers. If the Army or whomever allows them to stay then they may feel that they'd bear some degree of culpability for any actions that they may take and that might end badly.
I'm a veteran myself. I had a brief stint of duty after I graduated from training on what was then known as 'recruiter assistance'. I find this a touching and patriotic gesture. I'm sure that the Army appreciates it, but I understand why they're uncomfortable with it.
I had just gotten out of the Marine Corps when the Gulf War broke out. I have mentioned this in the (now distant) past, but I've often wondered if there was some way that a workable 'veterans volunteer auxiliary' could be formed for exactly this kind of situation, where your records could be checked and there would be the sort of chain of accountability that the service likes to have in place would be in force?
You’re right. I hadn’t thought of that, but I imagine it didn’t take the recruiters long to see the potential hazard.