Posted on 08/26/2004 7:05:50 AM PDT by dawn53
Just heard this on the radio, WFLA, Tampa Florida. Nothing on their website: http://www.970wfla.com
Anybody else have any info?
I hope they draw down on it and back away.
Keep us posted, please
Armed MPs pulled M16s on me when I was at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1991 and drove too close to the USS Lexington (the training carrier) to get a close up view. Oddly enough, there were no barriers or "DO NOT ENTER" signs anywhere leading up to the carrier. Ah well.
Could be anything. Probably nothing serious.
I just hope this situation is handled sensitively [/Kerry]
The Marines had 16s on me a few years ago - 1995, I think - when I got lost in southern California and ended up trying to go into Camp Pendleton. Oops.
Must have been the "Swift Boat Veteran for Kerry" bumper sticker.
Max Cleland trying to deliver another letter?
All of a sudden I was surrounded by yellow flashing lights and guns. My husband had to come and identify me. They let me go. The same thing had happened to an officer's wife and they were harder on her. Must have been my southern accent.
I used to be an IBM rep, during the college days, and visited both the Lexington in P-Cola as well as MacDill AFB.
I remember the gaurds advice. "When the guys with the M16's tell you to do something, you had better do it as fast as you can."
The Lex is now in Corpus Christie, TX. We spent the night on board last year with my son's cub scouts. It was very cool! I got a bottom bunk so I could lie down on the floor and then roll into it.
15 years ago, I was working at Vandenberg AFB in California and working in a secure area. I screwed up on entering the access code into the keypad to enter the secure area three times in a row. I heard a voice over the speaker ordering me away from the door - and within 30 seconds I had 2 Airmen with their nasty looking rifles pointing at me and ordering me to spreadeagle on the ground.
From that point forward, if I screwed up the access code just once, I'd call for help in gaining access. Rather unnerving.
Long Live the Lex!
I've done a Boy Scout Live-Aboard on that beuaty and on the USS Texas. If any of you want an outstanding experience in scouting, do a naval live-aboard.
Just heard an update.
An SUV tried to enter gate, didn't have ID, and refused to say why they wanted on base.
Searched the car, no bombs, but the guys were suspicious and they took them into custody.
The men, who were not identified, were not charged and were escorted off the base, said a MacDill spokeswoman, 1st Lt. Erin Dorrance.
About 7:45 a.m., two men approached the Bayshore Boulevard gate in a Buick Rendezvous with New York license plates without proper identification and did not tell the armed guards at the gate where they wanted to go, Dorrance said. ``That set off red flags,'' she said. ``They could not answer. They stumbled through their answers.''
Inside the car were numerous antennas, cell phones and wires, Dorrance said.
The guards called in bomb dogs and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team.
The situation caused the Bayshore gate to close until 10 a.m. and backed up traffic during MacDill's rush hour.
Reporter Michael H. Samuels can be reached at (813) 835-2109.
This story can be found at: http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB5UJKRDYD.html
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