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Stan, just to be clear, I never said they were NRA members...in fact, quite the opposite.

That's actually not a bad idea...at least as far as the issue of whether or not anyone (for example a retiree visiting the commissary) can carry on post. Doesn't fix the issue of whether soldiers...

I, too, am a combat veteran, lifelong shooter, own and carry guns and I am an NRA member as well.

So what?

Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein own guns and have permits to carry...

Trusting soldiers with loaded weapons? Preposterous!

Next thing you know they'll be requiring deployed personnel to carry weapons and loaded magazines with them at all times or not letting them...

Not that you'd know it because apparently the entire US media is focused on USMC operations in Helmand, but the Army's 5/2 Stryker BCT has arrived and is already conducting operations in Kandahar. ...

Not fair! How can one Armored Corps hope to keep up?

Indeed! The bars and discos of the greater Vicenza area were a target-rich environment if ever I saw one. Although that line was used to far more impressive effect when employed by other young...

Ken, just one minor quibble: all three BCT types (Heavy, Infantry, Stryker) have Artillery Battalions: IBCT = 105s; SBCT = M777 155s; HBCT = Paladin.

The need for a third maneuver battalion has...