tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post9063063391362041456..comments2024-03-28T19:13:44.381-04:00Comments on HMS Defiant: PREDICTABLE TO A FAULTHMS Defianthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post-22006227376651881652014-07-07T13:17:00.390-04:002014-07-07T13:17:00.390-04:00Buck, true base security is what I did for the las...Buck, true base security is what I did for the last 23 years. Remember Selfridge? There is a ditch all along the perimeter fence. Cannon? The heavy vehicle with lots of torque departs the highway and heads overland straight through the chain link fence. There is no berm, no ditch and no weapon that can stop it. Shades of the Marine barracks in Beirut. Security on that scale is not 2 guys with M16s wandering around between coffee breaks.<br /><br />Big trucks don't need a gate. <br /><br />Even when you have security at the gates, there is never an overwatch manned and ready to engage the bad guy who simply drives up to the security at the gate and guns down the poor saps exposed at the checkpoint.<br /><br />Most people don't recognize real security. It looks innocuous. Berms stand out but ditches will stop vehicles just as well if there is an overwatch to keep bad guys from running a couple of planks over the ditch before driving over. Pop ups along the lines of the Maginot fortlets are better than giant upstanding security towers that can be taken out with stand-off weapons. There is no substitute for an armed security man. Cameras are a supplement, not a replacement. A Quick Reaction Force that takes 30 minutes to respond, isn't.<br /><br />At SANGB it had the ditch and it had alert 5 F-4s armed, fueled and ready to launch back when I lived there. The planes lived at the end of the runway. We took the deadly force signs at that end of the base very seriously. The ramp outside of base ops? No security at all.HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post-17357937740157496862014-07-07T11:43:08.220-04:002014-07-07T11:43:08.220-04:00The U.S. military long ago dropped the facade of g...<i>The U.S. military long ago dropped the facade of guarding military bases from terrorists.</i><br /><br />Not so at Cannon Airplane Patch. Cannon forces you to slalom through a series of concrete barriers before you get CLOSE to the gate and the guards are very well armed. That's for cars... trucks are forced on to a separate route to a covered area where the Security cops inspect and scan ALL trucks arriving. Security looks pretty good to this "interested observer."Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319116022465066060noreply@blogger.com