Why don't all members of the Air Force have to be fully qualified to be a rifleman in case of hostile events?

As a weapons tech 462 we were expected to to be very proficient with the Remington 870s with double 00 buck, As we escorted our munitions (NUKEs) from place to place. We had to qualify every 90 day. Trust me I could hold anyone off within 25 yards..

I would be amiss if I didn't say that not all USAF personnel are as incapable of handling the weapons you are spouting off about. I was selected to be a Security Police Augmentee and we were able to handle everything from shotguns to 203 grenade launchers. WHAT A BLAST! (granted I was raised by a Special Forces Dad who allowed me the freedom to learn about guns early on in life) Not all USAF personnel are as scared of weapons or handling them as you are portraying. I know personally some excellent sharp shooters who were active duty USAF! Thank You for your continuous service!

because of potato? honestly if your in a combat zone or close enough to one everyone should be qualified for a weapon. and requal every 3 months.

If you are deploying, you need to know how to handle a weapon. I had this conversation with one of my docs once. Neither of us were averse to handling a weapon, nor were we afraid of it, but agreed that if it got to the point either of us had to use it there were much bigger problems at hand.

I would have no clue about that, but I will say that every branch of the military should be qualified with the M4. It's probably the easiest weapons system to assemble and disassemble as well. Even though the Air Force and navy don't have any 11bravos or anything close to that, it would be nice to know that they would be able to protect themselves in some kind of situation that requires them to use some rifle marksman skills.

Completely agree. Once a year refresher "qualification" is of no help at all.

It's not necessary for airmen to know any of that. Even if an air field were to get over run, if your in country there is the army and marines on that same base. Even then I only carried security rounds and was told if something ever did happen to hold up in a bunker and let QRF deal with the problem. The AF doesn't assault hills you bomb them.

Since I was in both the USMC and in the USAF, I believe I have picked up some insight into this issue through the years I was in.
Yes, in the USMC – everyone is primarily a ‘rifleman’ and then then they have their MOS. So when Sh*t hits the fan – everyone is capable of being part of the defensive and/or offensive situation that is occurring.
In the USAF, the Security Forces (as labeled currently) are the army for the Air Force. Their primary mission is protection of Aircraft, Equipment and Personnel. There are other AFSC’s that need to provide armed protection (One example: CE); but for the most part CONUS units do not require personnel to ‘qualify’ unless they are deploying OCONUS – they might ‘FAM’ fire every three years possibly if their lucky.
My unit had a FAT’s system (Computerized video projection system where you could fire on range targets, or you could create ‘tactical’ field scenarios, or utilize ‘shoot don’t shoot’ scenarios). This system utilized wireless weapons (M9, M4, M16, M60, M240, M249, M870, etc.), they created the sounds and kick back like a normal weapon and even the weight was really close – magazines were utilized as well for reloading situations. This eliminated the need to fire ‘live’ ammo for the rest of the base unless they were deploying (then they would ‘qualify’ with real ammo) but at least they were getting proper instruction via our CATM instructors and ‘trigger’ time.
Not sure why this is not a widespread utilization among the branches – saves a lot of time and resources, while providing proper training situations and environments that you can’t normally take advantage of. We even had civilian law enforcement agencies come to the base to use it.
Unless you learn from history you will, keep repeating bad situations.
Vietnam showed the need why everyone should be properly trained with a weapon. Back then airbases were protected by the US Army, and the USAF only had air Police with .38’s roaming around inside the base. When the army would get called off – the bases would be overrun easily since the AP’s were not trained (at the time) and the base populous wasn’t either.
Flash forward to another situation with the US Army and convoys – personnel weren’t properly trained on weapon jamming fixes and people died or were captured.
Even up to today, in the military unless you are in a field that takes you to the ‘hostile’ environment you don’t get the proper weapons training that could save your life or the lives of others if the situation arose. It has happened at various CONUS bases in the recent past where some individual or individuals have opened fire in occupied buildings wounding and/or killing people.

We get that training before deployment...regardless of the weather...Torrential rain for instance.

You must be at a low deployment base. My guys qualify pretty much every year between the two deployment band we have folks going out and folks coming back with no lull. If you are assigned to a band and aren't broke, your deploying.