JTG asks in email (though I've seen it elsewhere, such as NRO).John, I believe you wrote that you insisted on yer men qualifying with personal hand-held weapons, Redlegs that they were. Your Dad, though a Redleg, got a PH for a bayonet wound. Now that we have an all-volunteer, "professional" armed force, can't we trust the soldiers with soldierly weapons? Well, we've never really had the habit of carrying arms in garrison unless we were going to do something with them - or it was a garrison in hostile territory, such as the frontier forts, the FOBs of their day. Oh, excuse...
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Nov 06 2009, 08:06 AM
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