Additional duty, yes. When I was deployed to Uzbekistan, a much safer place than neighboring Afghanistan, a bomb blast in the latter obliged us in the UZ base to carry our M-16 and two magazines. At work, in the mess tent, the shower, chapel, didn’t matter. Went on like this for months.
But IMO those tasked for additional guard duty need to be stationed in & around targets of opportunity like the staging area where the goblin Hasan knew his targets were concentrated and unarmed.
Issue weapons to all? Negatron. The unit first sergeants can best determine who’s most trustworthy.
“Issue weapons to all? Negatron. “
It wasn’t THAT many decades ago that this was exactly what happened in garrison. What happened to the Army?