On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:39:06 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:08:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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We didn't really have guard duty, we had fire watch.
I remember my first night there I saw a guy wearing a cartridge belt
walking around and thinking he was a guard. My first thought was "I
could take that guy".
A couple nights later I was wearing the cartridge belt and walking
around ;-)


Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge
belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up.

There were not any live rounds on our side of the base and our drill
rifles did not have firing pins in them. I am not quite sure what arms
we were under. ;-)


We had the belt. That was all.

Yup us too although there was a precedent for using the leggings too.
It was just more than they wanted to do for a 2 hour fire watch.
If you were on Shore Patrol, later in my career you were wearing white
leggings and a white web belt with a white night stick and the SP arm
band.
On a payroll run you swapped out the night stick for a sidearm.