We have a number within our company, and across the state that will not be allowed to return after tomorrow due to the deadline for accepting a jab of questionable safety and efficacy. We also have a battalion from Nebraska now wearing our unit patch, and falling under our brigades headquarters due to that states low numbers. I know as a state, our numbers have been strained so badly in recent memory, that we’ve been on the chopping block a couple times. If I retired tomorrow, I would still be carried on the books for a least a year to keep our numbers up.
Normally you wouldn’t. If I saw it, I would have locked the doors and called it good. I damn sure wouldn’t call the media.
I lock my doors (home and vehicles) but as my Dad taught me, all a lock does is keep an honest man honest.
Karen’s that need to be prosecuted aside, the NG member who left the rifle in a running vehicle at a known problematic location probably does need a sit down and a “what the F were you thinking” pop quiz.
I can think of a few valid reasons, but doesn’t sound like any of them were actually happening. I’ve walked through unsecured scenes with dozens of unattended vehicles all still running many with the doors still wide open. I could have drove off with any one of them, I’m sure I could have popped trunks and had access to patrol carbines and other cool goodies.
At the time all of the LEOs were 20 yards away working on trying to keep people alive.
She thought that was one of the free left behind Biden m4’s.
Exactly right. My guess is it’s a mistake of the head, not a mistake of the heart. Counseling followed by documentation and if it’s an isolated incident shred the doc sheet after a year (at least that’s how I would have handled it in LE).
Sounds reasonable. Hopefully it plays something close to that.
As a 1stSgt once said, “It’s less about shitting your shorts and more about how far up the flagpole those dirty shorts got flown.”
That right there is sig line material if I ever saw it.
That’s a solid way to handle the issue. Unless the soldier was a chronic foul up, there is no reason to go any further.
During operational briefings, I would caution personnel working in the area that some of the locals have a hard on for them and they need to keep their shit strack.
She obviously doesn’t like the NG performing their mission at the border. Her use of the term “idiots” to describe them gives it away. She used it as an attempt to sling mud because she acts like an entitled spoiled brat.
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Gotta agree with you. I was fortunate in LE, can’t remember any of my guys making the same mistake twice.
As such, my opinion is that this needs a two pronged approach. Cover the sticky finger locals in ops briefs, retrain and monitoring of offending guardsman internally, arrest and charge sticky finger for entering a government vehicle and removing an M4 (trespassing), theft of and possession of a prohibited weapon.
I agree, although I doubt they’ll do anything to the thief.
The last time I found a weapon from my platoon not secured, I twisted off so badly one of my squad leaders pulled me aside because he was concerned I might stroke out. It would be a painful lesson in individual responsibility on how to secure ones equipment for the service member in question. Not hazing mind you, but “corrective training”