Yes in port on Guard Duty. I should have specified.That's very odd. I've never heard of having to call a SCUBA team to retrieve live rounds. Perhaps they do that when in port and not at sea. I was firing an M16 full auto on a sub a few years ago. When it'd get hung up, the one sailor would yank the mag out and toss it into the water (rounds and all). He did this with about 3 mags. I thought it was kind of wasteful. This was outside if Point Loma.
I also saw sailors dumping thousands of pieces of brass (9mm, 5.56x45, 7.62x51, and .50) and empty ammo cans into the Atlantic. As a reloader, I was mortified.
Since he was a former Captain in the Army Rangers and then as an E-9 while deployed as a National Guardsmen, I think it played a factor in determining what he could choose to carry . One time while escorting a team of Seal's to "close" to the Iranian border he tried to make a trade with one of them for an M1 Garand one Seal was using as his primary. Seal wasn't into trading that Garand for anything.I have to disagree with some here, I think the shotgun has been on its way out since probably the Pacific Campaign during WWII and perhaps Vietnam. I can see a use for door-breaching/house clearing but most soldiers are using and used to, the M16/M4 platform. I can see a use for security type roles, guard-house duty, ship-board searches, and so on. Like rcmodel, I think for jungle use, heavy dense underbrush where you can only see 1-10 yards, a shotgun would excel. Not to mention a shotgun is a great defense weapon for the home-owner.
TruthTellers I have to say, the part about your moms ex-BF carrying a cut-down, SxS, in a shoulder holster,that seems highly unlikely and unusual. But I guess, never say never?
My mom had an ex-bf who was an E-9 CSM who did a tour in Afghanistan back in the mid 2000's. The only shotgun he ever carried there was a sawed off side by side that he kept in a shoulder holster. Only time he said he used it was to shoot a cobra that was ready to strike.
Since he was a former Captain in the Army Rangers and then as an E-9 while deployed as a National Guardsmen, I think it played a factor in determining what he could choose to carry . One time while escorting a team of Seal's to "close" to the Iranian border he tried to make a trade with one of them for an M1 Garand one Seal was using as his primary. Seal wasn't into trading that Garand for anything.
I only served four years on active duty, so I'm not a military expert by any means, but I've never heard of anyone going from being an officer to being enlisted. That, combined with his other odd stories, just makes this guy reek of Stolen Valor...TruthTellers said:Since he was a former Captain in the Army Rangers and then as an E-9 while deployed as a National Guardsmen
He was 48 at the time he was deployed so he had long been away from active duty Army service and he hated being an officer. I believe he switched back in the early 90's to NG and worked his way up to CSM.I only served four years on active duty, so I'm not a military expert by any means, but I've never heard of anyone going from being an officer to being enlisted. That, combined with his other odd stories, just makes this guy reek of Stolen Valor...
In the past months I've seen Mossberg shotguns in use by gate guards. That's all I've seen though.