I noticed that when you use the '@' hotkey to have a mortar crew abandon its mortar that they leave their rifles behind! In my base they had re-equiped themselves with pistols (not sure where they found them
) and are listed as generic crew (in my case it was a 12cm german mortar crew). I understand that this was probably a quick way of having experienced crew from a disabled tank survive a scenario...but it would be nice if in the case of a mortar, AT gun, HMG, etc. (I assume they all exhibit the same behavior) that they retain their arms. In the case of support weapons crews, they are trained infantry and should be able to be used as such (smaller unit of course and maybe not as much ammo or weapons load out).
...I remember some time ago there was a discussion of bailed out crews...but I could not find the thread and was not sure if it discussed this topic. My apologies if this has been discussed to death before