“We must move at the speed of relevance”
Petr Pavl
Big talk, but scant change!
Our new Secretary of War is aggressively emphasizing “The Warrior Ethos,” and inspiring all our troops to embrace his way of thinking:
Everyone who serves must be individually ready to defend himself and our nation, instantly and enthusiastically, with lethal force when necessary.
It’s about time!
Indeed, isn’t that what armies are for?
I love the rhetoric.
Yet, Wednesday’s fatal armed attack on two of our uniformed National Guardsmen in Washington DC by a lone Islamic terrorist unhappily reveals that little has changed at the base level.
Pray tell, why aren’t all US military commissioned officers and S/NCOs now required to carry pistols (in an appropriate state of readiness for instant personal defense), concealed or openly as the situation warrants, all the time, but particularly when deployed in uniform in high-crime, metro sewers, like Washington DC, Chicago, etc?
Why did a major in our Army National Guard, while on active duty in Washington DC, have to resort to using a pocket knife to defend himself and his troopers against an armed, AA-shouting, Islamic terrorist?
Why aren’t all our officers and S/NCOs taught how to, and expected to, continually carry issue pistols, round chambered, instantly ready to fire?
Isn’t that what all these pistols the Pentagon ordered are for?
Americans deserve to hear honest answers to these questions.
It appears that the very notion of loaded firearms and ammunition, in a continuous high state of readiness and in the hands of our military personnel, still frightens the snot out of our senior brass.
Obviously, our Army is still afraid of guns!
With all due respect, our Honorable Secretary of War needs to put-up, or shut-up!
/John
