[xzins]

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.

[Lancey Howard]

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.

Nowadays, airports, base mess halls, and CIA compounds are "combat zones". Somebody needs to be locked and loaded at all times. Telling trained military men they can't have bullets is malicious stupidity.