[unkus]

I call BS

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Me, too. The troops won’t put up with this BS and neither would their field commanders.

[fr_freak]

Me, too. The troops won’t put up with this BS and neither would their field commanders.

I was an Army grunt in Desert Storm. We had the same orders. In fact, at one point, we were told not to have loaded magazines in the weapon at all, just in our pouches. I think you vastly underestimate the ability of high-level officers and politicians to treat our military like retarded children.

[WaterBoard]

Tell that the USMC sentry at the Lebanon barracks circa 1984. They too were ordered to have no live rounds in their rifles. Lot good that did.

“Similarly, sentries directly facing the airport were ordered to carry their ammunition on their belts — not in their rifles — to avoid an accidental shooting.”

[MestaMachine]

The troops are disobeying this order, but it is NOT BS. This is McChrystal. The same McChrystal who tried to order them to patrol without body armor.