Folks will probably not believe this, but after the USS Cole was bombed off Yemen, the sailors who rushed topside with weapons were REFUSED ammo.
You probably won’t believe that the reason was because the Captain wished to AVOID AN ACCIDENT.
That sounds unbelievable, right?
It’s also true that the USMC guards on duty in front of the HQ in Beirut, Lebanon during the Reagan years also had NO AMMO in their rifels, and that Hezbollah knew that.
We live in a country that is no longer serious about its own survival.