How easy/hard is it to sneak someone into the barracks?
How easy/hard is it to conceal someone on base or inside the barracks for more than one night?
I am a civilian. Any time I've gone onto a military installation in the US, I have been stopped at the gate and had to show photo ID. It was not unusual for my vehicle (as well as others) to be pulled over and searched by military police upon entry into the gate.
During these random searches we would all have to exit the vehicle, open any compartments/storage areas and open any containers like suitcases or boxes. This was a normal occurrence from coast to coast. Granted, as a civilian maybe I was subject to more detailed scrutiny.
So I'm wondering, do military personnel come and go more freely through the gates? Do they get searched as often as civilian visitors? Do they have justify who is in the barracks with them? Are civilians allowed in the barracks as a general rule?
I was a civilian employee at a sub base, which required me to have secret security clearance to work there. All that was required for anyone working there, and sailors stationed there, to enter with a vehicle, was their I.D.; no search was ever conducted on any vehicles of people with I.D.s.
Have driven onto Ft Lewis, Ft Benning,Ft Knox, and USAFA multiple times each, and my vehicle has never been searched. After I got the paperwork at the entry point, the gate guards, who are usually DOD civilians, just waved us on through.
(And this was often when the color-code sign at the gate showed an “elevated terrorist alert “. Kek.)
Interesting. I've been searched three times that I can recall.
Of course, each of those times was an event where many people were coming onto base to attend, so that might have had something to do with it. And several vehicles were being searched, not just mine.
Or maybe I'm just a suspicious looking character. ;-)
Serious question(s) here.
How easy/hard is it to sneak someone on base?
How easy/hard is it to sneak someone into the barracks?
How easy/hard is it to conceal someone on base or inside the barracks for more than one night?
I am a civilian. Any time I've gone onto a military installation in the US, I have been stopped at the gate and had to show photo ID. It was not unusual for my vehicle (as well as others) to be pulled over and searched by military police upon entry into the gate.
During these random searches we would all have to exit the vehicle, open any compartments/storage areas and open any containers like suitcases or boxes. This was a normal occurrence from coast to coast. Granted, as a civilian maybe I was subject to more detailed scrutiny.
So I'm wondering, do military personnel come and go more freely through the gates? Do they get searched as often as civilian visitors? Do they have justify who is in the barracks with them? Are civilians allowed in the barracks as a general rule?
I'm trying understand how this happened.
Yeah, it's very easy. Depending on security posture just the driver with mil ID can bring others on base.
I was a civilian employee at a sub base, which required me to have secret security clearance to work there. All that was required for anyone working there, and sailors stationed there, to enter with a vehicle, was their I.D.; no search was ever conducted on any vehicles of people with I.D.s.
Wow. This is astounding. I guess I assumed our military installations had more stringent security than that.
I think that it is assumed that if you passed the background check to get the security clearance, you aren't at risk to do anything illegal.
Have driven onto Ft Lewis, Ft Benning,Ft Knox, and USAFA multiple times each, and my vehicle has never been searched. After I got the paperwork at the entry point, the gate guards, who are usually DOD civilians, just waved us on through.
(And this was often when the color-code sign at the gate showed an “elevated terrorist alert “. Kek.)
Interesting. I've been searched three times that I can recall.
Of course, each of those times was an event where many people were coming onto base to attend, so that might have had something to do with it. And several vehicles were being searched, not just mine.
Or maybe I'm just a suspicious looking character. ;-)