First of all, I never said that ALL should be disarmed.
Second, being required to carry a long gun around to your dental appointment and to classes and to the bathroom is a major PITA.
Third. All soldiers are not combat soldiers. Soldiers on the battlefield are far different from REMF (rear echelon m-fers) soldiers or even combat soldiers in training. Have you ever been on base on the Friday after payday? I have. Even good soldiers get drunk and do stupid things and bad soldiers do even more stupid things.
Fourth, there are probably jihadists in all the branches of military. Most sailors and airmen receive only the most basic training on firearms, certainly not enough to be a skilled armed guard.
All I am saying is to train enough people so that there are always a few who have CONCEALED firearms immediately available.
And I never said ALL should be required to be armed.
And I never said all should be trained enough to be skilled armed guards.
That said, they’re soldiers. They should at least be _minimally_ armed, as opposed to completely disarmed (maybe not all always, but should be the norm for most). The notion that one could be a career soldier and virtually (or actually) never be armed is preposterous. Sure, carrying longguns about is a PITA, but that’s what sidearms are for: have SOMETHING available ALWAYS.
This idea that REMFs are somehow immune to enemy attack was just proven absurd in Ft. Hood. Really, in TEXAS of all places!
All I am saying is that soldiers are trained and, allowed to carry, there would always be a few (at minimum) who have firearms immediately available.
I’m not sure what your paranoia about open carry is. The notion that “the jihadist will know who to hit first” is silly as he’d at best get in only about one hit.