Posted on 08/17/2019 6:15:46 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Assuming we’re ever told, a dollar says it was a foatgucker.
After I got out of the service I guarded an Air National Guard base for several years as a special policeman. Some nights I carried a fully automatic M-16 and some nights an S&W revolver.
Did it capsize?
This is a cautionary tale for those planning to storm Area 51.
This is the base with a B-2 bomber wing?
Guns and barriers do work in keeping the riff raff out. What a surprise.
Now lets apply that to the southern border.
All B-2s are stationed in Missouri. Did you mean B-1?
I looked it up. There are B-2’s deployed to Guam.
Ping
Obviously, those signs telling people to stay out with the big red letters saying use of deadly force authorized at the bottom mean what they say.
Chinese or North Korean ?
And the problem is...?
During the mid 60s one of my best friends Father was an officer at Eglin AFB. My Father also worked there. One day at school he told me that the APs had killed a Russian Spy trying to slip into the TAC section of the base.
My Father had heard the same story.
If it was true it never made the local papers or radio.
Most people that have made serious attempts to infiltrate United States Air Force installations have not lived to tell about it.
I guess the perp didn’t read the Red and White signs telling him that deadly force was authorized.
DoD Directive 5210.56:
3.4. USE OF FORCE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES.
a. General. DoD personnel, armed in accordance with this Directive, are authorized to use force in the performance of their official duties, as described in Paragraph 3.1.c. When force is necessary to perform official duties, DoD personnel will use a reasonable amount of force and will not use excessive force. The reasonableness of any use of force is determined by assessing the totality of the circumstances that led to the need to use force.
b. Warning Shots. Warning shots are prohibited in the United States. Warning shots are also prohibited outside the United States unless otherwise authorized by applicable host-nation law and status of forces agreements and in accordance with Standing Rules on the Use of Force in non-United States locations.
Deadly Force.
(1) The DoD Component heads may impose further restrictions on the use of deadly force if deemed necessary in their judgment and if such restrictions would not unduly compromise U.S. national security interests or unduly put DoD personnel at risk.
(2) Deadly force is justified only when there is a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to a person or under the circumstances described in Paragraph 3.4.e.(4).
(4) Deadly force may only be used when reasonable, including, but not limited to, under the following circumstances:
(a) Self-defense and defense of other DoD personnel. Authorized DoD personnel may use deadly force in order to defend themselves or other DoD personnel in their vicinity when there is probable cause to believe the target of that force poses an actual or imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.
(b) Defense of others. Authorized DoD personnel may use deadly force to defend non-DoD personnel in their vicinity when there is probable cause to believe the target of that force poses an actual or imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm and when defense of those non-DoD personnel is reasonably related to the performance of their assigned mission or to their duty status, or is within the scope of federal employment.
(f) Performing an arrest or apprehension, or preventing escape. Authorized DoD personnel may use deadly force to arrest, apprehend, or prevent the unlawful escape of a fleeing subject if there is probable cause to believe:
1. The subject has committed an offense involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical injury or death; and
2. The escape of the subject would pose an actual or imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to DoD personnel or others in the vicinity.
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He must not have read the regs or the signs at the entry control point (ECP) that are posted to remind people they will behave themselves or deadly force will be used.
rwood
Yeah, when they say “Deadly Force Authorized”, they’re not BSing. That whole Storm Area 51 thing is so stupid, they’d see a group that big coming days before they got there. The open desert is a great environment to employ all kinds of weapons from belt-fed machine guns to F-15s armed with 500-lb JDAMs. In boot camp and college, there have been many many many stupid schemes launched with the saying, “They can’t bust all of us.” Yes, they can. After seeing the results, I’ve never been happier to have said, “This is stupid, I’m out.”
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