To: Number57
Perhaps if they gave the guard some ammunition they wouldnt have to retreat.
To: driftdiver
Well if they were armed there might have been a shootout and some Guardsmen might end up in prison.
5 posted on
01/04/2007 7:17:44 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: driftdiver
Exactly. The National Guardsmen have unloaded weapons and no ammunition.
Same reason why my son guarded and walked the perimeter of a large armor and weapons depot in Germany as a soldier in the US Army back just prior to his shipping out to Saudi Arabia in the first Gulf War.
They don't want some soldier causing an international incident.
The Guardsmen should sue the United States Government for placing them in mortal danger without the ability to defend themselves...while WEARING A MILITARY UNIFORM.
39 posted on
01/04/2007 8:12:25 PM PST by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: driftdiver
News said they have bullets and wear Kevlar vests, but are not "allowed" to fire, they had to retreat and call for the border patrol, by the time BP showed up the men hotfooted it back across the border.
Sounds like they were testing the border and the NG. Said this was the first incursion of this kind ---- in the Tucson secter.
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