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Assuming this story is true and not a new way to Goldbrick her way back to the states, how the hell does a woman get raped in a combat zone?

Does she not carry her beretta with her everywhere even if she leaves her rifle in her bunk? Where is her combat knife? I have a hard time believing someone goes out raping amongst that many armed people.

Call me a skeptic but it sounds more like a story to get shipped back stateside.

I hope the Brigade never gets attacked while they are going potty.

Does she not carry her beretta with her everywhere even if she leaves her rifle in her bunk? Where is her combat knife? I have a hard time believing someone goes out raping amongst that many armed people.

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No ammo permitted. Combat knife? It is not permitted.

I got the impression from the article that it's not an actual combat zone, it's a staging area somewhere in Kuwait. And if that's the case, she probably assumed (incorrectly) that she'd be safe among her own unit.

Not that that's an excuse for not carrying a weapon. Even Rick Sanchez carries a pistol with him everywhere it seems, even if it's to a press conference. But considering some of those arab media reporters, plus some of our own reporters, I don't really blame him. But I digress...

I hope the Brigade never gets attacked while they are going potty.

It says outside the shower. In Bosnia, the shower was the only place we could go without our weapon. Just going for a crap- you had to take it, but for the shower it was allowed to leave it with a buddy back in the tent. The rationale being, you wouldn't want to take your weapon into the shower with you and while you were in the shower you wouldn't really be able to watch it while it was propped in the corner of the shower room. It's only a few minutes of a soldier's day and if you're within an armed and guarded camp, it's not like it's a huge security let down.

Furthermore, I don't know what the weapons status is for off duty personnel on this particular camp but it could very well be that off-duty soldiers are not walking around with magazines inserted in their weapons. In such a situation, they would have the magazines with them but not physically in the weapon. Therefore, it wouldn't be all that hard for an attacker to overwhelm someone before they could get a magazine into the weapon.