Do you know anything about this?
Thanks for the ping, PM. I’d heard about the murders, but this is the first I ever heard of troops not allowed to have rounds for their weapons.
My s-i-l just returned home from Afghan on about Wednesday after a year away. I’ll check with him and see if this was normal or unique to a given location.
I know in training missions our units were often required to have weapons without rounds in quarters areas for obvious safety reasons, but that would not entail in a combat zone.
There’s also the issue of whether they could have magazines but not have them in their weapons when in a FOB. I can sorta get my mind around that, but I think out of 9 killed that someone could have locked and loaded in that amount of time and returned fire.