Hegseth lifts ban on service members carrying personal firearms on base

Of course he pistol whipped women

And it becomes not crazy, but calculated, when you learn why.

Yeah, I know. Its the reason I had to store my weapons at the armory every time I PCS'd (and lived in base housing).

Exactly, its similar to OSHA regulations for worker safety. Every single one has a reason and every single one was written in blood as it always takes a tragedy to effect change.

No, it shows he doesn't give a f***. He sees a ban on guns and that's all he cares about. Not the hows or whys of it. He wants violence. He wants people to kill themselves or others. He thinks it weeds out the weak and unworthy. He's a f****** nazi.

Or he has nefarious reasons. I’d hate to think this is to empower admin loyalists against constitutional loyalists, to prepare for shit hitting the fan when the admin’s push for unlawful and unconstitutional commands will hit a breaking point within the armed forces.

I remember reading about a regulation banning the storage of radioactive materials in crew quarters on shipping vessels. To us, now, it's like "well yeah, no shit!". But that regulation was written because some "entrepreneurial" jackass thought he could cut costs. Some regulations are written for legislation, but some are written in blood. This ban is a case of the latter.

Australian amd ex military, I love how Americas solution to everything is more guns. A school shooting results in a spike in gun sales because people are worried that this time the government will do something to restrict access to guns instead of "thoughts and prayers".

I'd argue it shows active malice

This man is woefully an under-qualified caricature of a poser military leader. He is a shameful disgrace to the office and severely lacking in honor and integrity. I have many family members that have served, some career, a few wartime, and this man’s shallow ego and lack of experience and discipline is not what made the US military what it is today, and his reckless lens is going to get many more people needlessly killed. /rant

As I’ve heard many times over,regulations were written in the blood of those who died screaming.

In this case, I imagine there's a reason Hegseth wants this policy lifted. In the 2000s it was warned by the FBI that extremists and domestic terrorists were infiltrating law enforcement and military nationwide. Get some troops who are more loyal to the proud boys who would be willing to shoot other servivemembers, and now don't need to worry that the guns are locked up or need paperwork.

Lol, good point

Well, American military bases are rife with criminal activity, that’s for damn sure.

It's hard NOT to think he's orchestrating his own assassination. I mean usually someone who has weapons in restricted areas is how you know they're the bad guys.

The boot LTs are all reconsidering having PT at 0400 come Monday

Was looking for this. Matricide is specifically killing your mother. Which may also happen.

Huh, well I learned something today.

The nerd version of fratricide is lambdalambdalambdacide

It definitely reeks but it feels like pure stupidity more than coniving intent. These people are just so f****** inept. ...but also get to make the decisions.

As a former MP I can say definitively that this is a stupid and terrible idea.

Policy is written in blood. There is a reason we had this rule in place. Hegseth is a f****** moron.

Pretty sure the ban was in place during that time.

Have you *not* seen the movies where they needed to be armed but weren't???

"Warfighters" is something that sounds cute when a three-year-old says it, before learning big boy words.

He reeks of insecurity.

"Weird" is the wrong fkn word

He’s definitely something, weird isn’t what immediately jumps to mind.

I would say extremely cringe whenever he opens his mouth. I’ve heard retired generals laugh at him on NPR because they think he’s compensating and hiding something and is all around laughable.

Oh, don't worry. These people are never responsible for anything.

This is the Trump administration. They won't accept responsibility for anything. "That's for chumps!"

We had junior supply guy have a negligent discharge in his living room and nearly shoot his kid. It was in post housing Good idea Mr. Kegsbreath

Everyone in similar uniforms with probably similar firearms, one bad actor turns into everyone shooting each other

One of the original goals of Project 2025 when I first learned of it before their playbook was to install loyalists in all branches of government. So far they have removed many of the top military people. I assume to install loyalists.

Not too mention ensuring sympathetic cult members are now allowed to carry personal weapons on base. Makes seizing military assets much easier.

Hasn't stopped, and it's not just Hood, and they're denying families access to personal items like phones afterwards. I know of a couple families who's children have allegedly committed suicide on bases in the past year.  There's shady shit already going on, and I feel terrified for any females living on base, especially after this happens.

It depends on a lot of different factors, but usually boils down to collective punishment and a decrease in morale. Usually, we'd get called in on the weekend to get chewed out for failing to police our own, but it's not uncommon to have privileges taken away as repeat offenses stack up. The punishments would get progressively worse, culminating in blues inspections, revocation of shift cutbacks, mandatory double shifts, and cancellation of unit-wide team-building days. In the older days of the Air Force, people caught with DUIs used to be forced to hold a sign in front of the base as everyone drove in for work. Usually it would say something like "I'm Sgt. Namehere, and I got arrested for drunk driving." In the case of mishandling / misusing a personal firearm and getting someone injured or killed, I have no idea what would happen. I know just about everybody would be emotionally devastated as a result. Morale would take a massive hit.

*"why on this sub are we suddenly asking what cops think about things."* Not 'we'. I am asking. I don't have a side in this, because I don't know enough about it to have an opinion. I form my opinions after gathering all the available facts. It seems obvious that the opinion of the people who deal with violence and lawlessness on military installations would have value here. I have been out of the military since the early 1960s. I assume my knowledge is very much out of date. The Charge of the Light Brigade was ordered by an officer who didn't know the facts on the ground. If Hegseth were a competent leader, he could still be woefully underinformed, but available evidence suggests that he is not competent to lead, in part because he would never ask the question I asked, and would not be interested in knowing the answer, as you seem also not to be. (Forgive my pedantry. It's a petty matter, I know, but it "raises the question". "begging the question" is a common term for the logical error petitio principii)