Troops

[Judith]

Does anyone have personal imformation to confirm or deny this article?

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2010/...afghanistan-to-carry-weapons-with-no-bullets/

 

[Don]

To be honest -- it's highly suspect. It's from 2010; and it's based on an anonymous source from an unidentified location.

Rear areas, especially around ISAF headquarters (ISAF is mentioned in the article) were given instructions to unload weapons when in the Afghan HQ compounds; but were loaded (not chambered) when travelling to/from those locations. Me and my guys, we always unloaded at the main gate in front of the Afghans, then discretely re-loaded when they weren't looking.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Does anyone have personal imformation to confirm or deny this article?

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2010/...afghanistan-to-carry-weapons-with-no-bullets/

I normally don't think much of Snopes.com, at least not in the last few years, but they effectively debunked this, and it was just posted in the last 24 hours.

Snopes: Dodging the Bullets​

This item circulated on the Internet in January 2014 claiming that the Obama administration had ordered U.S. troops in Afghanistan to carry weapons containing no ammunition appears to have originated with a since-removed article published on the U.S. Report web site (not to be confused with the venerable U.S. News & World Report news magazine) reporting that: [NOTE: Here the article quotes yours verbatim]

A few things to note about this article:

• It was originally published in May 2010, so it's not an account of a recent change in policy or an implementation of new rules.
• It was based on an information provided by a single, anonymous source.
• Describing what it reports as meaning that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have been required to "carry weapons with no bullets" is misleading and inaccurate. The article describes troops carrying weapons that are in fact loaded (i.e., have full magazines) but don't have a round chambered — a soldier carrying such a weapon would therefore need to expend a small amount of time (~1 second) chambering the first round prior to firing, but that is a vastly different situation from carrying a weapon with no bullets that cannot be utilized until an ammunition magazine is snapped into place.

In other words, bogus as a $3 bill.

 

[Judith]

Thanks for the information

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Thanks for the information

No problem. :thumbsup: :type: