“According to figures given to the author, Hamblen claims that there are only 21 such weapons in the arsenal meant to equip over 3,000 National Guard troops.”
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What kind of NG unit is he talking about? I spent a year in an NG unit and we all had M16s as well as our crew served weapons(4.2” mortars) and .50 caliber M2 machine guns for our tracks.
I’m glad to hear that your unit was fully armed as it should be. How long ago was that?
I’m asking because it occurred to me that we NOW have a government that sympathizes with terrorists and sees our armed citizenry and especially our returned military as possible/likely terrorists. The head of DHS certainly thinks so.
Many of us expect (hopefully) that our military will not fire on American citizens or help in the confiscation of our weapons etc. under a possible/likely choreographed “crisis” (never let one go to waste and if you need one, make one) resulting in martial law.
What if they find a way to disarm not just us civilian citizens but also all the military who are loyal to our country and not Caesar.
Yeah, that’s the question I had. In my guard unit we had two SAWs per squad, three squads per platoon and then the crew served weapons squad with two M-60s.
This was in every rifle platoon, with the HQ platoon which had the 60mm mortars, the had M60s attached as well. We also a hybrid scout/AT platoon with SAWs organic to them as well.
This guy is arguing that his brigade only had 21 automatic weapons? What the hell was he in, the 4th Spoon Platoon? There should have been at least one .50 or M60 or M240 on each vehicle in his units.
I don’t get his rational about him needing the weapons because his Guard unit did not have enough automatic weapons....
Please check my post #59, Scotsman. I meant to include you in my request.