Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Unbelievable - Guards at the Navy base are unarmed, and dead!

I was in the AF for almost 6 years before I had any sort of firearms training with live fire. In Basic Training, we were introduced to the M1 Carbine and spent a rainy day in the barracks learning to strip and reassemble, memorize parts of the carbine, etc. We were supposed to go to the range for a day to fire, but were in the tail end of a huge tropical storm, entire base was flooded, real gully washer so range day was cancelled. In 1964 I was in Japan and got a 6 month TDY to Thailand and Laos so we fired the M1 Carbine before going. Got down there and found that we absolutely could NOT have any firearms whatsoever, some treaty thing.