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Almost all the guards I know are former soldiers anyway, It's a decent job when they get out.
Private Security Guarding US Military Bases ???
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Minot AFB is currently using Army reserves as supplimental guards. Of course, being a nuke base leads to different security requirements. They get all the toys... I just love the idea of a full-auto grenade launcher.
Back before 9/11, I was stationed in colorado springs, and Fort Carson had NO gate security. All the AFB's had gate guards at all times, but you could just drive onto the fort. That's probably changed now, but I remember it being weird to me even back then. Every installation I'd entered before then had guards at the gate. Of course, I hadn't been to many bases at that point.
When I was in Europe, I was selected to be an auxillery for a while. I've heard about them not issuing ammo, but this was after the Cole bombing and 9/11, and every time they gave me a weapon, there was a loaded magazine in it, and I had spares. Even during exercises. Made exercises interesting, when everybody is running around with loaded weapons...
Back before 9/11, I was stationed in colorado springs, and Fort Carson had NO gate security. All the AFB's had gate guards at all times, but you could just drive onto the fort. That's probably changed now, but I remember it being weird to me even back then. Every installation I'd entered before then had guards at the gate. Of course, I hadn't been to many bases at that point.
When I was in Europe, I was selected to be an auxillery for a while. I've heard about them not issuing ammo, but this was after the Cole bombing and 9/11, and every time they gave me a weapon, there was a loaded magazine in it, and I had spares. Even during exercises. Made exercises interesting, when everybody is running around with loaded weapons...
Waitone
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Been going on for at least 3 decades. What is different now is the use of "contractors" in a hot zone.
Question for the esteemed forum.
February 1968 (IIRC) was the Tet Offensive. How different would the fight at the American Embassy have been if it was contractors doing the guard work as opposed to MP's?
Better question.
What happens when the nice, neat lines between the good guys and bad guys dissolve. What happens when US forces end up in a saloon fight and command and control essentially goes away?
Just seems to me the concept of "contractors" in a hot zone is just fine as long as things go according to some MBA's plan. I don't understand how it would work out to our benefit when TSHTF and all the plans are chucked.
Question for the esteemed forum.
February 1968 (IIRC) was the Tet Offensive. How different would the fight at the American Embassy have been if it was contractors doing the guard work as opposed to MP's?
Better question.
What happens when the nice, neat lines between the good guys and bad guys dissolve. What happens when US forces end up in a saloon fight and command and control essentially goes away?
Just seems to me the concept of "contractors" in a hot zone is just fine as long as things go according to some MBA's plan. I don't understand how it would work out to our benefit when TSHTF and all the plans are chucked.
SapperLeader
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I was in a national guard unit doing the base security last year. We were the fourth unit to cycle through, and the best of the units that ever provided security. Our replacements were the contracted civilian security personal. They were just like any military unit, some good, some bad, some excellent. They tend to put the excellent ones in supervisor or key positions. I think its a good idea, they do a fine job, and it frees up troops to stay local or go overseas as needed.
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