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Date Submitted: 12/11/2010 01:12 PM
Why it is important not to let your weapon fall into enemy hands.
Due to the increase in theft in the military, especially while deployed, it is important, now more than ever, to secure your weapon. Especially with all the local nationals working on our FOBs nowadays, it’s just too easy for one or more of them to be working for the enemy. I mean these people are always looking for any reason to make more money and if that means stealing your weapon to sell it, you better believe they’ll do it without hesitation. Another thing to consider is what will happen to you if your weapon were to come up missing due to not securing it. Lose of pay and rank are the two biggest things that keeps most soldiers in the military today.
“You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. There is only one sort of discipline - perfect discipline.“ - General George S. Patton, Jr. Keeping accountability of personal protective equipment and mission essential items is of the utmost importance and should be the first priority of every soldier. According to FM 7-21.13 Chapter 3 on Duties and Responsibilities of the Individual Soldier: “Duties are general requirements to be performed. Duty begins with everything required of you by law, regulation, and orders“, but it includes much more than that, a duty is a legal or moral obligation. Each soldier has a obligation to his/her team, to his/her section, and to the rest of his/her unit to keep constant accountability of their individually issued items. If these obligations were to be thwarted in any way, this would cost his/her unit time (length of time used in obtaining new equipment), personnel resources (manpower that could be utilized otherwise in accomplishing mission critical tasks), and financial resources (any costs incurred to the unit itself).
FM 7-21.13 also states that “responsibility is the legally established and moral obligation a soldier assumes for his/her own actions, accomplishments and...