Fort Hood Soldiers Guard the Base Entrances Without Magazines in their Weapons...

Yahoo News Photos ^ | 20091110 | Unknown

[Perdogg]

When I was there the base entrance was guarded by armed private security contractors.

[Monkey Face]

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

[TChris]

Why not save money by giving them toy guns instead? They have to be cheaper than empty M-4s.

[OldDeckHand]

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.

[armymarinemom]

I heard about this yesterday and had hoped that it wouldn’t go public.

[RexBeach]

Why not arm the guards with that Turkish tennis ball machine gun. I hear that’s pretty lethal.

[cripplecreek]

Well I garantee the only loaded weapons within a mile of the president today are secret service and probably hand picked by him.

[lionheart 247365]

ONE WORD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> INSANE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OldDeckHand]

"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.

[frankenMonkey]

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.

[MrB]

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.

[lesko]

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.

[IDRATHERNOT]

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

[DallasSun]

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

[Robe]

How can you tell from those photos that their weapons are unloaded ????

[big'ol_freeper]

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.

[PhiKapMom]

[sport]

Wait until the ones that are in the Navy and are stationed on warships get the word to go into action.

[GraceG]

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?