I thought the Air Force reloading method was to hand the rifle to a Soldier (US Army) and "ask them to put more 'bullets' in their 'gun'".
That's hillarious! You're kidding right?
I was an AF SP from '88 -'92, did my time in Europe. When the Army was taking their Pershing II warheads out of Europe they used our base to store them until they could be flown out en masse.
Because they were Army resources, the Army was responsible for all of the security during transport (we had our own weapons storage area already, and somehow we convinced the Army that we could keep their big, bad boom-booms safe). When they would run convoys from the flight-line to the WSA, the Army troops would maintain the cordon, blocking traffic, looking mean with their rifles in hand, no magazine in the weapon (not even for show), and their ammo pouches were clearly empty. We were told that they Army troops did, in fact, have ammo: It was sealed in a large ammo can. The idea was that if something happened, it was the platoon sergents job to distribute the ammo to his troops.
This was not only hillarious for us cops, but also really confusing. The amount of security required for an Air Force nuclear weapon was clearly significantly greater than that required for an Army one, even though they were equally dangerous.
Here is one more anecdote to prove how stupid this was: Our WSA had a line of bunkers where the weapons were stored. All of the bunkers were fully alarmed, with a full "15 in 5" dedicated to the WSA (Any SPs here that have worked in a WSA can attest to the security). Well, one day the Army was moving some stuff in or out of their dedicated bunker when an alarm went off on one of the adjacent bunkers. One of the ART teams and the fire team were dispatched to the bunker. Obviously, this interfered with the "security cordon" of the Army operation, and the Army troops tried to stop the SPs from responding to the alarm. The conflict was quickly resolved when it was made clear to the Army troops that the SPs not only had weapons, but the ammunition to go with them, and that their weapons were, in fact, loaded and pointed in their general direction. The Army troops quickly withdrew from the adjacent bunker and continued their operation without further conflict.
I have other stories, but I think I have made my point. The Air Force doesn't screw around when it comes to security. AF cops always have ammo with their weapons, and unlike the Army, are well disciplined in their safe use and handling.
BTW, I never trusted any auggies. They were usually either rambo wannabies (dangerous), or the losers that their office liked to send out on exercises to pick on them (stupid).