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04-08-2011, 03:00 PM
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OT: Not a good place for a firefight
Two shootings this morning aboard a docked British nuclear sub.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110408/...tain_submarine 
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04-08-2011, 07:14 PM
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 OK, I can see a sentry at the foot of the gangway armed with an assault rifle...I can even see a sentry or two up in the sail/walking patrol armed with an assault rifle...but I have to ask just what the CO was thinking when he had a sentry inside the submarine armed with an assault rifle?
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04-08-2011, 07:22 PM
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04-08-2011, 11:38 PM
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04-09-2011, 09:35 AM
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I know the Navy pukes always had armed sentries whenever their ship was carrying nukes; from what I hear though, the interior sentries were armed with shotguns/pistols...sure you will have damage from the projectiles...but someone dumping a mag of 5.56mm would surely do more damage to them "things that shouldn't be shot at".
If nothing else, the ease that this sailor was disarmed is a strong arguement against issuing assault rifles for onboard sentries...
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04-09-2011, 10:10 AM
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Back in the early 80's an uncle of mine was forbidden entry on a civilian sub tour - his belt-buckle* was a life-sized .38 snub nose profile in heavy relief (at a glance, looked like a .38). He went back to his car, removed it, and came back and after a quick pat-down got the tour.
... *=this was the early 80s and ridiculous huge brass belt-buckles were the norm in FL.
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04-09-2011, 02:07 PM
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Okay, from what I have heard, it sounds like it was a 9mm pistol that was used, not a shotgun or SA-80 family.
And apparently it was a civvy who was involved in engaging and disarming the seaman.
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