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For one you get paid a heck of a lot more than $6 an hour..
and they earn it. The Guys at Wakenhut who do this work are damn fine Security Folks who know and practice their job continually.

For another I have some personal experience with this on the Military side of the house as part of many QRF (Quick Reaction Force)... in a number of places and in charge of a few.

If you are on duty you eat, take a dump, play cards, play pool... And if you can sleep you do. In many instances I have ordered guys to sleep.

You stay in your uniform with your weapons and equipment at hand

Depending upon the assignment you have a certain specified time to be at your position. It can be measured in min.. I have seen 600 fellows go from asleep in their racks to fully armed and moving in good order down the road in their Tanks, Trucks, and APCs in less than 15 min..

So a few fellows lazing around a ready room is really nothing now is it? Not only that but depending upon the importance of a security assignment a fellow may be assigned 1-2 hours on then a few hours off then back on again. The idea is the first guy has to be alert awake and to do that he has to be rested. In truth once you know what your doing sleeping is as much a part of proper security plan as staring over the wire.

Anyone thinks Osama bin Hiden or his cronies can by force get inside even the first layer of a Nuclear Power Facilities Security is on Crack. It gets much worse from there.

Anybody whose played GI Joe knows when the need arises you go from sleep to wide awake in seconds if necessary. Nothing like rolling out of the bed at home in the morning looking for a cup of coffee. Just not the same thing at all.

This is a BS Story, absolute nonsense.

You want the QRF Folks rested and loose so they can do the job if and when it comes to that.

First of all the fact of the matter I give props to the security officer for having the courage to say something and that not the only plant that has had problems with the sleeping officer wackenhut and there clients make it so difficult to stay awake, no reading, video games, no weight room or running unless its the real thing, etc. Its how wackenhut/clients runs it the security force. The owners of the nuclear plants see security as “NO” profit department. they lose money so they give them a small budget to work with pretty much enough for pay roll and for state weapon req.. They get written up if you play games on the Internet to try to stay awake or work 72 hours in a week becuse the company is really slow on hiring more people because of budget issues. Your plant co-workers think your department is a joke because you are the lowest payed employee onsite even though your might lose your life to save theres if something should happen. So I don’t believe that the guy that took the video of his coworker was politically motived to do this. I go to my site and see the samething sometimes.