Agent Brian Terry had his side arm...it was (I am told) loaded with dum-dums....bean bags. The enemy are the drug cartel mules...they are armed with 
(these) ... President Trump, please have someone look into the "live fire" rule today.
Someone please explain why commissioned officers in the United States Armed Forces are not required to wear their sidearms while in uniform on duty.
Don't I wish.
doesn’t matter officers are not on gate guard duty
These are mostly non-coms, but your question still holds. Why are military personnel on Guard Duty not armed?!
I wouldn’t trust 1/2 of the officers I had to be armed and the rest of us not. Screw that. Everyone should be able to be armed and ready to go.
Clintoon outlawed it.
Commissioned officers should be armed always. Same as any LEO trained and trusted with a firearm.
“Someone please explain why commissioned officers in the United States Armed Forces are not required to wear their sidearms while in uniform on duty.”
You don’t need to be armed all the time when you’re going about your daily business. Most of the recruits from the big cities have never been exposed to firearms and are uncomfortable with them.
Bases, stations and installation all have entry security, DOD and service specific LEOs, and agreements with local LE, why would anyone in general need a gun?
You do realize that I am spouting leftist/statist propaganda?
As I sit at my breakfast table armed and secure.
As a retired officer, I avoid my local army base as much as possible. I go armed pretty much every where else.
In the Navy an officer assigned Shore Patrol duty you, the petty officer and enlisted man assigned will be armed. At least that’s the way it was when I was in the Navy.
Agent Brian Terry had his side arm...it was (I am told) loaded with dum-dums....bean bags. The enemy are the drug cartel mules...they are armed with (these) ... President Trump, please have someone look into the "live fire" rule today.
sounds like many bases are using the old model, time to beef up, retractable stop poles, machine guns, explosion proof inspection stations
When I was Officer of the Day and had to go armed, I always felt more comfortable around the Air Police than I did around the other Officers of the Day. I felt the APs were competent with firearms. I wasn't sure about the other ODs.
With all of Clinton/Obama's Communists that they packed into the military? The Pentagon is nothing more than a social Petri dish for leftist dogma, used for tests on how to reprogram Deplorables, and it's a given that they can't be trusted in the US with live ammunition.
“Someone please explain why commissioned officers in the United States Armed Forces are not required to wear their sidearms while in uniform on duty”.
The display of firearms by U.S. military would anger enemy combatants.
Major Hassan perhaps?