“the need for the DoD to review its approach to force protection and to broaden its force protection policies”
Oh, I know...they’re going to let us all carry weapons! NOT. Effin’ idiots - if one or two people in the room had been carrying, there’s an excellent chance that casualties would have been WAAAY lower.
Don’t know if my dander can get much higher on this issue...
Colonel, USAFR
The report highlights as an action item, the need for DoD to review it's policy on personally owned weapons. The writing is on the wall - personal weapons on base will no longer be allowed.
Over 20 pages of action items, and not a single one mentions "Muslim, Islam, Jihadist", but the powers-that-be think it important enough to mention the personal weapons policy, and intimate that it's too lax. As usual, DC can't see the forest through the trees.
JAG-
You didn’t actually expect anything different out of our politicized, DoD bureaucracy did you? I certainly did not; this is exactly the type of weasel-worded, touchy-feely, whitewash job that was inevitable from this crowd!
May the Good Lord protect our troops from the incompetence of their own leadership in the upper ranks!
JC
If most of the soldiers on base had been wearing sidearms there probably never would have been an attack. Even a crackpot is not so likely to start firing if he knows his first shot may be his last. After all I don’t recall ever hearing of anyone attacking soldiers at the firing range during rifle practice, there must be a reason. Don’t think I have ever heard of anyone attacking a police firing range either.
Of course the real cause of this is the failure to take action to do something about an active duty officer who was obviously a nut case. Political correctness takes precedence over the safety of troops.
A number of flag officers ought to have been told to retire. including Casey. What a loser this guy is.