[kellynla]

bottom line: the NG are UNARMED!
I haven't heard such a ridiculous story since the NG were stationed at LAX after 9/11 without ammo!!!

[TomGuy]

I haven't heard such a ridiculous story since the NG were stationed at LAX after 9/11 without ammo!!!

I have.

US guards at Iraqi prisons were issued rubber bullets after the Abu Ghraib prison fiasco.

Imagine being in a war zone, guarding the worst of the enemy prisoners, and having only rubber bullets. [This problem came to light when US guards had to retreat and await forces will real bullets during prison riots and insurgent incursions.]

[Ole Okie]

I haven't heard such a ridiculous story since the NG were stationed at LAX after 9/11 without ammo!!!

Well, you remember how much damage Barney Fife did (usually to himself) when he used his one bullet.

Some of our leaders watched too much Andy Griffith as a kid.

[El Gato]

bottom line: the NG are UNARMED!

A FReeper Guardsman reports on another thread that they were *not* unarmed, although they only had two magazines of ammunition, when he was on a similar assignment in New Mexico.