Navy to arm some military personnel off bases
The guards will be posted at Navy Reserve centers that are not on military installations, such as the one attacked in Chattanooga.
The Navy has already emailed Naval reservists in order to recruit men to serve 45 days of “armed sentry watchstander duty” beginning this month, NBC News reported Friday.
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An FBI investigator works to gather evidence outside a military recruiting center on Friday, July 17, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Since the attack, armed civilians have stationed themselves outside some of the nation’s more than 1,000 off-base military recruiting centers to offer protection.
Sgt. Brilakis said that their assistance, though well intentioned, would be counterproductive to their recruiting operations.
With Friday’s announcement, the Navy has made itself the only service to date that has taken steps to place its own armed guards at off-base facilities.
After the Chattanooga shooting, Defense Secretary Ash Carter called on his staff to create a plan to improve security for all Department of Defense personnel. “Volunteers must be either Massachusetts (master-at-arms) “A” school graduates or have completed the Security Reaction Force – Basic (SFRB) course” and be qualified to fire a 9 millimeter weapon. In the immediate aftermath, the Marine Corps closed recruiting stations within 40 miles of the shooting.