{"id":69069,"date":"2016-11-22T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69069"},"modified":"2016-11-22T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T13:21:13","slug":"plan-to-allow-dod-personnel-to-carry-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69069","title":{"rendered":"Plan to allow DoD personnel to carry weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/11\/21\/dod-releases-plan-allow-personnel-carry-firearms-base.html\">Military.com<\/a> reports that the Department of Defense has released guidance to commanders on the subject of troops carrying and using their POWs (privately owned weapons) on DoD property. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Arming and the Use of Force,&#8221; a Nov. 18 Department of Defense directive approved by Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, lays out the policy and standards that allow DoD personnel to carry firearms and employ deadly force while performing official duties.<\/p>\n<p>But the lengthy document also provides detailed guidance to the services for permitting soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard personnel to carry privately owned firearms on DoD property, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p>Commanders, O-5 and above, &#8220;may grant permission to DoD personnel requesting to carry a privately owned firearm (concealed or open carry) on DoD property for a personal protection purpose not related to performance of an official duty or status,&#8221; the document states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The policy is in response to recent shootings on military installations and appears to be a genuine effort to make the troops safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com reports that the Department of Defense has released guidance to commanders on the subject of &hellip; <a title=\"Plan to allow DoD personnel to carry weapons\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69069\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plan to allow DoD personnel to carry weapons<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}