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Fort Hood Soldiers Guard the Base Entrances Without Magazines in their Weapons...
Yahoo News Photos ^ | 20091110 | Unknown

Posted on 11/10/2009 11:51:56 AM PST by nckerr

Click on the photos...This is craziness. The political correctness of the military. The Army and Marines are more trained with weapons and safety than the police. Why would they embarrass our Soldiers by making them pull guard with empty weapons...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; forthood; militarybase
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1 posted on 11/10/2009 11:51:57 AM PST by nckerr
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When I was there the base entrance was guarded by armed private security contractors.


2 posted on 11/10/2009 11:53:43 AM PST by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: nckerr

GR-r-r-r-r-r!!!
Castrating them on duty.


3 posted on 11/10/2009 11:53:56 AM PST by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for ForgotenKnight, my army hero grandson.)
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Why not save money by giving them toy guns instead? They have to be cheaper than empty M-4s.


4 posted on 11/10/2009 11:54:16 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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Boy, it's awfully hard to tell from that picture. Do you have anything bigger?

It's even difficult to discern if they're holding M4s or MP-5s. But, it appears both may have magazines inserted in their weapons.

5 posted on 11/10/2009 11:55:06 AM PST by OldDeckHand (Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
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I heard about this yesterday and had hoped that it wouldn’t go public.


6 posted on 11/10/2009 11:55:26 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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Why not arm the guards with that Turkish tennis ball machine gun. I hear that’s pretty lethal.


7 posted on 11/10/2009 11:55:27 AM PST by RexBeach
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Well I garantee the only loaded weapons within a mile of the president today are secret service and probably hand picked by him.


8 posted on 11/10/2009 11:55:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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ONE WORD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> INSANE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


9 posted on 11/10/2009 11:56:45 AM PST by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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"When I was there the base entrance was guarded by armed private security contractors."

I just left active-duty this past summer. Most of the bases I've either been stationed at, or have visited have been guarded at least partially by civilian contractors. That's not necessarily true internationally, but it seems to be true at the domestic bases, and has been true since the military draw-down of the early '90s.

10 posted on 11/10/2009 11:57:44 AM PST by OldDeckHand (Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
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I don’t disagree with you, but all the armed guards in the Army wouldn’t have stopped the Ft. Hood Terrorist. He was an insider.


11 posted on 11/10/2009 11:57:44 AM PST by frankenMonkey ("Natural Born Citizen" - US Constitution, 1787; "Words have meaning" - Barack Obama, 2009)
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He’d have nothing to fear.

Real Americans wouldn’t dream of shooting him,
and the Muslims that would, know he’s on their side.


12 posted on 11/10/2009 11:58:50 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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I don’t think this is anything new. I served as an MP in Korea and Ft. Bragg in the late 80’s and most times I (we) was not allowed to have a loaded M-16 and/or .45 on duty. We walked patrols in the local villages and provided all kinds of security.


13 posted on 11/10/2009 11:58:56 AM PST by lesko
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Well I garantee the only loaded weapons within a mile of the president today are secret service and probably hand picked by him.

Secret Service=Praetorian Guard
14 posted on 11/10/2009 11:58:56 AM PST by IDRATHERNOT
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This has always been the case. My husband served on guard . duty at Ft Hood....his weapon was never loaded. His Sgt at Arms had ammo


15 posted on 11/10/2009 11:58:58 AM PST by DallasSun (i believe in separation of church and hate.)
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How can you tell from those photos that their weapons are unloaded ????


16 posted on 11/10/2009 11:59:23 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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The weapons have their magazines inserted so unless you have x-ray eyes what are you basing your statement on?

And if you have a source for that why would you spread that publicly to put these soldiers at greater risk than their peon leaders have?

Loose lips sinks ships.


17 posted on 11/10/2009 11:59:26 AM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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18 posted on 11/10/2009 11:59:41 AM PST by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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Wait until the ones that are in the Navy and are stationed on warships get the word to go into action.


19 posted on 11/10/2009 12:00:01 PM PST by sport
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Forget the Jihad terrorists, what about protecting us and our millitary from those Gadsden Flag Tattooed, Ron Paul Bumper Sticker, Tea Party Militia member Janet Napoleon-o tells to be scared shiftless about?


20 posted on 11/10/2009 12:00:17 PM PST by GraceG
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