As to the combat situation.
I was taught that your side arm was not an offensive weapon that you took on an army with.
But then again, I wasn’t in the situation that the boys are in in Iraq and Afgan. Different kind of war I guess.
If I was even 10 years younger, I know where I’d be today, and it ain’t here.
Riots happen in American cities, too - and then you have similar problems.