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To: radu

DOD Police attend the gates, and post 2009 all gates have active and passive measures to stop such run-away drivers- usually in the form of a channelized gate arrangement (passive) then an active barrier that any gate guard can activate from his station- usually a pneumatic gate some distance inside the installation that pop up on command. All designs are of course, location dependent. Stand off is key, and some bases/forts etc do not have much capability for appropriate standoff systems. Not having been to Campbell in a long time, I do not know what systems they are using, but it looks like someone/all of them failed to punch the button in a timely manner....


43 posted on 08/15/2018 4:58:42 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Manly Warrior

It’s been about 15 years since I’ve been to Ft. Campbell so I have no idea what setup they have at their gates. I’ve been to a couple of other bases more recently and they have the setup you described. Whether at every gate, I couldn’t say.

This has happened before at Ft. Campbell and I don’t recall getting follow-up reports afterwards then either, now that I think about it.


57 posted on 08/15/2018 12:35:44 PM PDT by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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