Re: Cause this isn't Star Wars...

Sea Wasp wrote:
Michelle Bottorff wrote:
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


So, what do you all think? Do the military personnel inside the station
carry sidearms? If they don't, what happens when they discover that
they have an intruder? Would they carry sidearms while on their ships?

Unless your universe never has any boarding events -- either violent
or subtle -- they'd be armed.


Since this is counter to what Ric is saying, could you expand on your
reasoning? Surely in our universe there have been boarding events, but
apparently on small ships nobody is armed.

Coast Guard ships are about as small as military vessels get, but even on those some of the personnel are armed, and all of them can BE armed.


My experience, on the fourteen or so deployments I was on, nobody carries aboard ship. The boarding teams report to the arms locker and pick up their weapons before each boarding. Small boat (47' and smaller, generally), rules are different, since they pick up their weapons in the station before they get underway, but even there, I believe they stow their firearms out of the sea spray until it comes time to conduct a boarding. Any vessel that is routinely underway for multiple days has some kind of arms locker with a gunners mate, or skipper in control of access.

Bill
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