[paulycy]

Any questions whether the soldier was allowed to be armed at that place and time? He wasn't.

Do you have a source on this? I wondered about that and I hope official policy is always to let them be armed...duh.

[DYngbld]

No, recruiters are not armed.

Unless you are in a hostile environment, or on watch, most of the military does not carry a weapon during the course of a normal work day.

I have never carried a weapon as part of normal work.