I was in the National Guard for 9 years… there are craptacular missions like that.
(Of course you don't really need to be armed on a majority of relief missions, like say the Los Alamos fires and such, so I don't count those in the above.)
How do you (not you personally) expect people will react when one of the guardsmen is shot/killed and word gets out he was unable to defend himself because no ammo was issued?
I'm not sure.
What happened with Brian Terry? We got some exposure of Fast & Furious, the easiest Treason case in eighty years, and what happens? Nothing.
Bloody hell is what will happen.
I'd like to think so, but given the above I just don't know.
What's really funny is that the whole southern border could be closed with less than 200 Paladins.
We once had armed military missions on the border . The whole mission changed once Mr. Hernández, Jr. got blasted.
OneWingedShark,
Great quote!! I had to read it several times and then saved it to use in the future.
Thanks for posting it!!!