23Sept05

From a friend on duty on the Gulf Coast:

"Just got back from eight days in New Orleans providing police supp ort. I carried an MP-5 (ready to go, of course), my duty SIG2340, and my G27 backu p in an ankle holster.

National Guardsmen, to my horror, were issued only ten rounds each for thei r M16A2s (no matter how many magazines they had) and were under standing orders not to chamber even one of them unless 'threatened!' They asked me to go with them, since they knew all my weapons were hot. I persuaded some of th em to ignore such a stupid order and load their rifles and keep them that way. None had pistols. Few even had blades."

Comment: Once again, senior "management" knows weapons train ing provided to these NG troopers is poor. They don't trust their own training, and they don 't trust the men themselves. Like 7/11 clerks, they=80=99re cann on fodder! And these guys are supposed to be ready for real war?

/John