This has gotta be a case of the bureaucrats running the military. What the hell good is, arguably, one of the finest revolvers on the planet and 18 rounds of ammo without a couple of speed loaders?
At the time they were originally issued, dump pouches were standard in both MIlitary and civilian LE.
As Equipment progressed, the military standard of being risk averse reared its head. Speedloaders were verboten, although some special units turned a blind eye.
Some of us took to swapping the shitty standard grips out for Pachmyers every shift at the armory window (They would not allow them to be stored with non-standard grips) and sneaking our 12 spares into Bianchi speed strips to put into the dump pouch
There was always a mixed bag of “Leadership” so we had to pick and choose what we could get away with.
Then the M9 came along. Guess where those went. A standard flap holster. Piss poor for Police use, but dammit, it’s what we always used, cause that’s what my daddy used.
In the 90s, they started doing some real research into what worked. The troops have better gear now. Training as always, lags behind, but they are geting there.
Some units are even issuing standard police defensive rounds instead of the shitty ball ammo of the past. But, there’s the main stream commanders with no balls that will jabber “Geneva Convention” as a reason use substandard shit for peacetime police operation on a base.
More bad news. Secretary Hegseth’s order lays responsibility on installation commanders.
These risk averse rectums will find every bit of bureaucratic bullshit they can to make it impossible to get authorization, all while highlighting that is is authorized, really, honest.
Only way to fix it will be fore the Secretary to make a couple examples of commanders that pull that crap. I hope he does