This story has a ring of truth.
Remember back during Restore Hope a situation where troops where guarding warehouses and standing post without rounds. If I remember correctly, the same thing happened at the barracks in Beirut.
It’s official...Obama and McChrystal are throwing the damn war....
A long time ago, I was told by a Marine who said he was assigned to the barracks in Beriut at the time it was attacked that they were not even allowed to have a magazine loaded with live ammunition inserted in their weapon. So, in order to fire their weapon at the approaching t4ruck-bomb, the sentries would have had to retrieve a magazine from its pouch, insert said magazine, chamber a round, THEN aim and fire.
I’ve always wondered if this was true. I mean, Ronald Reagan was CIC at the time.
Is there anyone out there who was in Beruit when our Marine barracks was truck-bombed by radical islamic terrorists and who can confirm or deny that story?