@fkamiah17 My dad was a Navy Seabee who was rounded up and sent to guard the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, California from 25 April to 26 June 1945.
He was given a 38 revolver, and a holster, and then training, which consisted of a Sergeant yelling at them for 30 minutes that "no way in fuck should they take that out of the holster."
My dad's line was that "to this day he did not know if it had bullets in it."