Bones: He's crazy Jim. He thinks Spoons Butler is a deity. He worships CNN. He thinks Vikings had armed warships. He says sailors with muskets on sailing ships will stand on the rolling and pitching deck and defend against shore batteries. He is incurable Jim.
Jim: Yeah, but he's kind of fun, like a tribble. We should keep him around for amusement.
Post #282 was my first post on the subject and it shows I said the arms were for the "ship's men".
He says sailors with muskets on sailing ships will stand on the rolling and pitching deck and defend against shore batteries
I linked Fox's memo which said the fighting sailors were to deliver the supplies, that's what they needed arms for.