It is hard to believe they would go into a peace keeping mission without ammo but they certainly did in Marksville Louisiana after one of our hurricanes. The Nebraska NG was down here assisting us and absolutely carried sidearms with no clip/magazine in them for all the world to see. I think they were a little surprised that our "storm victims" could get a little rowdy when free sheit was being handed out. I told them that people from a warm benevolent climate weren't the same as folks descended from pioneers that survived 6 months of snow and freezing every year in the 1800s.
