[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

The guards on the USS Cole also had no clips. That’s why they couldn’t shoot the Zodiac as it approached.

They are magizines not clips. I sereved in Special Warefare at NAB Coronado from 91 to 96, we always had loaded 45's on watch. Plus a GM in our armory with more small arms firepower than most ships carry.

[nckerr]

And if the Navy or USAF has loaded weapons and they are barely trained on weapons, how much more should the Soldiers and Marines be allowed to have amuunition in their weapons? The actual boots on the ground highly trained warfighters?

[GATOR NAVY]

I sereved in Special Warefare at NAB Coronado from 91 to 96, we always had loaded 45's on watch.

Well you were mostly alone at that time. The rest of the Navy was issued magazines for watch but never carried loaded weapons. It wasn't until after the Cole in 2000 that the Navy finally decided that they could trust average sailors to carry condition one weapons and not shoot themselves.