Posted on 04/07/2016 7:30:38 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - "I've been around guns all my life. I know how to use them, and arming our people on our military bases and allowing them to carry concealed, privately owned weapons -- I do not recommend that as a force protection," Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley told Congress on Thursday.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked Milley what the Army is doing to provide force protection at military bases and facilities in the United States, following last summer's attack on a Marine recruiting center and a Navy Reserve facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that killed four Marines and one sailor.
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Well, Hood did get a twofer, April, 2014 - 3 dead and 16 injured. November, 2009 - 13 dead and 32 wounded. (Let's not even bother with the July, 2009 shooting death on base, or the September, 2008 shooting. Or the unsuccessful 2011 attack.)
Navy Yard clocks in with 12 dead, 4 injured in the September, 2013 attack.
Fort Bragg, October, 1995 - one dead, 18 wounded.
As for recruiting centers, the Pentagon just doesn't care. No significant changes in security between the June, 2009 Little Rock attack by Muzzis and the 2015 attack by Muzzis in Chattanooga.
Personal disputes omitted.
Maybe we should start using the phrase 'going military' instead of 'going postal'
(And of course, the analysis of military intelligence wouldn't be complete without the June 1994 attack at the base hospital near Spokane - 4 dead, 23 wounded.)
Unrelated military trivia question: How many mutinies by Blacks took place in World War II that had to be put down by force?
I remember seeing Scottish soldiers home on leave during WWI.
They had their Enfields slung over their shoulder. I guess they were more trustworthy than now.
Redundant. PC == nuts.
I should have said I saw pictures of them. I am not that old.
General Milley sounds just like an Obama appointee.
I knew GEN Starry & his wife Lettie as members of the church I attended. A good, kind, and generous man in private. Sometimes the job makes the man; maybe true for him professionally. He now rests with honor at Arlington.
Oh, and the perfumed prince who acts at being the current Army COS is a knothead.
Och! Ye'r older than I thought.
[Army Chief of Staff Opposes Private Weapons for Protection on U.S. Military Installations]
How’s about, I dunno, MILITARY WEAPONS!!!???
I’m impressed! (either way)
"One size won't fit all," Milley said. "It'll depend on locality, risk and so on." If a local commander does authorize military personnel to carry weapons, they must be trained and they must carry government-owned weapons.
So, his real position is (1) it's up to the local commander, and (2) they have to be government-owned weapons. That probably means open carry as well. I could go with that, if the local commander also assumes responsibility for whatever happens if he doesn't authorize it. But this business of if command authorizes it, they "must be trained" argues that either they aren't now or that the General is under that impression. Everybody trains, everybody qualifies, or they need to find another line of work.
Yeah, I’d be against “personal” weapons too. Not their service weapons.
Well I guess this shoots a hole in the liberal theory that the second amendment was only meant for the military.
Well, looks like his last name fits.
The Army Chief of Staff has body guards?
All officers who have a driver have in essence a bodyguard.
We're in bizarro world for sure.
I remember the elevated DEFCON levels just after 911, a Ft. Huachuca Commander ordered roving guards armed with baseball bats, flashlights, canteens w/TA-12 and helmet liners. The CDR was female, but ass grabbing Claudia Kennedy had already left. Most other Army posts were locked and loaded.
The first thing our next Commander In Chief must do is purge the officer senior ranks of leaders like this who obsess over political correctness
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Absolutely! The SecDefs and military Chiefs selected by Obama have all been wussies promoting the decline of the US military strength.
Recent interviews with three of Obama’s former SecDefs indicate they disagreed with the directions he was giving for changing the DoD into a weak-sister and promoting the LGBT culture. ......Then why in hell didn’t they quit? They liked the power and addition to their resume’s!
Post #31 clarifies things a bit.
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