The article says he disarmed her. How do you know how it happened, or what 'disarmed' means? Does the Navy give every person standing a quarterdeck watch a sidearm?
“Does the Navy give every person standing a quarterdeck watch a sidearm?”
In my day, only the petty officer of the watch got a sidearm. The officer of the deck could wear it if he wanted, and if he wanted to be known as a...sorry, couldn’t think of anything clean.