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With the successive budget cuts eviscerating our conventional forces, it is not clear how much of a fight the military leadership will putup to preserve weapons that may be the ultimate guarantor of our security but that some deem unusable.
Military prosecutors say West followed up on that threat by taking the suspect outside, put him on the ground near a weapons clearing barrel and fired his 9 mm pistol into the barrel.