PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Defense secretary calls for review of military security policies :: 08/01/2015
Military personnel are generally prohibited from carrying firearms at recruitment centers and bases, but he reminded the chiefs that existing policy allows for armed personnel for security, law enforcement and counterintelligence duties.
Carter announced the new policy and other security measures in a two-page memo on Thursday.
Carter’s memo came after Kuwait-born Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, of Hixson, Tennessee, unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center in Chattanooga, then drove several miles away to a Navy and Marine reserve center, where he shot and killed the Marines, and wounded the sailor, who later died.
“The tragic shooting on July 16 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, illustrates the continuing threat to (Department of Defense) personnel in the U.S. homeland posed by homegrown violent extremists”, he wrote, asking for a consolidated set of plans to review by August. 21.
That directive says military personnel “shall be appropriately armed and have the inherent right to self-defense”.
The defense secretary said now is the time for the four branches to develop plans for the option of arming personnel, particularly 7,000 recruiting and ROTC stations that have no security and rely on local police. David Wyatt, Sgt. Carson Holmquist and Lance Cpl. Carson Holmquist; Lance Cpl. Abdulazeez was killed by responding police officers.
Armed citizen vigilante groups in a half dozen states started standing guard outside recruiting centers and other public military sites after the July 17 shooting rampage in Chattanooga.
“While we greatly appreciate the outpouring of support for our recruiters from the American public, we ask that individuals not stand guard at recruiting offices as it could adversely impact our mission, and potentially create unintended security risks”, said Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook in a statement released Friday.
“We are thrilled the Department of Defense will finally be taking the necessary steps to allow our transgender service members to serve openly and honestly”, said Broadway-Mack, as reported in the New York Times, which noted that the number of transgender people serving in the military is estimated to be over 15,000.
http://www.ledgergazette.com/defense-secretary-calls-for-review-of-military-security-policies/24525/
