[Bad Jack Bauer]

Anyone know why it took well over 5 minutes for someone to shoot at the terrorist, on the largest Army base in the world? And then to be stopped by an off duty female civilian?

One would think that an Army base would have firearms all over the place but I can tell you from my time in the Army that this is not so. The MPs are the only ones that are armed on post. The only times a civilian is armed on post is when they are part of a civilian police force augmenting the MPs. I had my own personal sidearm stored in the arms room when living in the barracks. When my units went to qualify at the range we signed out our weapons from the arms room but were not issued any ammo until we were at the range. The only time I ever carried a loaded weapon was during Desert Storm.

[IWONDR]

Does anyone know what sort of weapon was used by Maj. Hasan? Also, how did he get it onto the base? If it was there to begin with, did he have to sign it out, as you had to do? When signing a weapon out, is it checked by whomever to see if it is loaded or not? Maybe these sort of rules don’t apply to an officer versus an enlisted man? I just don’t know myself. Any thoughts on your part?

[investigateworld]

Also, military doctors rarely see gunshot wounds unless their in a combat zone.

During the run up to Desert Storm, our county hospital hosted dozens of military MD’s as we could guarantee them lots of opportunities to update their skills.