It appears that at least two of the individuals at the Chattanooga Navy Operational Support Center did considerably more than simply wait to be slaughtered when the facility was attacked last week.<\/p>\n
Multiple news reports (Fox<\/a>, Navy Times<\/a>, Washington Post<\/a>) say that internal DoD investigation\/reporting indicates two of the military personnel there appear to have been armed with personally owned weapons<\/em> when the facility was attacked last week. Those individuals were one of the slain Marines (not further identified) and LCDR Timothy White, the Center\u2019s CO. (CDR White survived the attack.)<\/p>\n Both also appear to have returned fire at the facility’s terrorist assailant, Mohammed Abdulazeez, during his attack on the facility. It is not clear yet whether either fired shots that hit their attacker.\u00a0 (Autopsy results are expected this week.)<\/p>\n Both the slain Marine and LCDR White appear to have been in violation of DoD policy by being armed with a personally owned weapon while at their facility. In general, DoD policy prohibits personal firearms on DoD installations or facilities.<\/p>\n Can\u2019t say I blame either of them for apparently intentionally disregarding policy, though. Being an unprotected and unarmed soft target during a war is NOT a good thing.\u00a0 Policy mandating that is simply freaking foolish, and we’ve got enough data now to know with certainty that the enemy – radical Islam – can on occasion strike targets here in the US directly or by proxy.<\/p>\n I also hope further investigation shows that one or both of them fired shots that hit Abdulazeez, ending the attack. Maybe then DoD will finally<\/em> find the backbone to do what\u2019s been obviously necessary since at least 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"