What the US Military Fears Most? Its Own Troops - #2A
Air Force Flinches on Arming Recruits with Working Guns …Again
Was This How We Won Two World Wars?
Well, here we go again. The United States Air Force had a brief moment of clarity—just a moment—when it looked like they might start treating their own recruits like real warfighters by letting them carry actual M4 rifles during basic training.
But predictably, that moment passed faster than a Beltway politician dodging accountability.
According to the Air Force’s top brass, arming trainees with real, live-fire-capable rifles throughout boot camp is just too hard. Too many “logistical challenges,” they say. Too much responsibility. Heaven forbid young Americans who sign up to wear the uniform actually handle the tools of war early on—tools they’ll be expected to be intimately familiar with when the real fight starts.
Instead, they’re sticking with glorified toys: inert M4s that look real, feel real, but don’t go bang. Maj. Gen. Wolfe Davidson, who oversees the whole training pipeline, confirmed they’re not moving forward with real rifles “in the near term.” You know what that means—it’s code for never, unless they get forced into it by reality.
Let’s be clear…