The arms rooms for 3CR squadrons are almost all exclusively in the basement of squadron buildings, and for the Regimental Support Squadron (RSS), all of the companies had their arms rooms along the same basement corridor. That is to say, if I was going to my company's arms room, I would walk past the arms room for other companies in our squadron along the way.
Thanks for the welcome
@Seattle1, hopefully I'm following rules/policies of the site in the right way.
I am also very sorry it happened within 3CR, it's horrible and I think about it quite a bit...the what-ifs, what-could-have-beens, and whatnot. This whole ordeal has made me want to go back into the Army, and do
something....what that something is, I don't know, but I can't do much sitting here.
E4 may not be the
appropriate rank to be in charge of an arms room, but I know that in my company, our armorer was an E4 for my entire time there. Sometimes, the personnel isn't available to fill every slot needed for leadership positions so you go to a senior specialist to fill the role. It gives them leadership experience and looks good when they go to the promotion board.
In my company's case, if someone needed to get into the arms room, we went to that E4 for access.