[jonascord]

When you are a Dictator wannabe, you do not trust your military. Even now, the military does not have ammo on base. If there is a live fire training exercise, the ammo is brought in from off base, and every round is accounted for. They have to return the spent brass, as well as all unfired ammo.

Why am I reminded of the movie, Dogs Of War? Remember when, in his briefing, Walken said that the dictator doesn't trust his soldiers?

Now, that wouldn't be obummer, would it?

[libstripper]

Returning the spent brass and unfired ammo dates back at least to 1964 (that’s right, 1964) when I attended ROTC summer camp at Ft. Riley, KS. I can see a good reason for returning both in that green troops shouldn’t have live ammo in the barracks and not policing the spent brass would leave a huge mess in a very short time. Further, spent brass can be reloaded, sold, or recycled, saving Sam at least some money. I don’t know what they did with the spent brass at either Ft. Riley or Ft. Lee, VA where I took officer’s basic and where they followed the same practice. BTW, in 1968 all an officer had to do was register a personal fire arm. Having done that, he could keep it in a BOQ or pretty much wherever else he deemed appropriate. Nobody ever thought very much about it and I never heard of any troubles resulting from the practice.

[libstripper]

Returning the spent brass and unfired ammo dates back at least to 1964 (that’s right, 1964) when I attended ROTC summer camp at Ft. Riley, KS. I can see a good reason for returning both in that green troops shouldn’t have live ammo in the barracks and not policing the spent brass would leave a huge mess in a very short time. Further, spent brass can be reloaded, sold, or recycled, saving Sam at least some money. I don’t know what they did with the spent brass at either Ft. Riley or Ft. Lee, VA where I took officer’s basic and where they followed the same practice. BTW, in 1968 all an officer had to do was register a personal fire arm. Having done that, he could keep it in a BOQ or pretty much wherever else he deemed appropriate. Nobody ever thought very much about it and I never heard of any troubles resulting from the practice.

[HamiltonJay]

Well he and most the others there carried their own personal weapons, I don’t believe they were wearing military issue, but I can remember distinctly him packing daily and when visiting him at work during that time everyone had a handgun of some sort on their hip in the offices.

I remember asking him why he started carrying it as open as he was during that time, he told me he was advised to by his command since we were at war and they could be considered a soft target.

Blew my mind when I found out that doing so today would be a violation.