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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Try to do a health and welfare check of a set of private quarters off-post.
See if your search is upheld as legal.
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Actually, I know people that happened to. Back in the later 80s, one of my troops (when I was an E5 I think) - the first sergeant took it upon himself to "inspect" his quarters because of complaints. He didn't find anything "illegal" (and he was inspecting more because it was a supposed rathole the guy was living in).
I have no clue whatsoever about what kind of rules of evidence gathering the military uses, if that's what you're referring to about the search being "legal".
Even if the search was not ruled legal, think you're gonna get your guns back?
The military enforces it's dumber rules all the time off-post. Have you ever seen a list of "off-limits establishments"? I know guys at Bragg in the 90s who were stopped in the parking lots of said establishments and asked for their military ID's.
(*ahem*... it was these friends of mine, you see....)
Basically the plainclothes MPs (jokers) would stop anyone they saw exiting a car with post decals, or with a short haircut. I have no idea how legal that was or not... but they did it anyway!