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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4314632" data-attributes="member: 5412">Exactly. Most bases do not have armed security at their entrances. Not on their person. I'm confident there may be weapons in the gate house but most now use active deterrents at the gates to stop intruders. If they get through, there are secondary deterrents just on the other side.We are eligible to take our RV on military bases and have done so on a regular basis as most have a facility to do so. I'm pretty observant on what security they have and it's not hard to find where they are.I've hunted on the Macalester Army Ammunition Depot several times. When you get through the gate, there are vehicle stoppers on the creek after the gate for a secondary as an example.It's not a secret deal, there are signs designating those blockades may come up. A thousand citizens that work there go through that gate daily. When I was at my last duty station at Ft Leavenworth KS, the guards never showed a weapon and were there to pass one through with a minimal stop if one didn't have the bumper sticker on the front. You just got a solute with the sticker.It takes a minute with a hair dryer to remove a sticker and move it to another vehicle to breeze through an entrance gate with a load of explosives if one were a terrorist. We were there 5 years ago and went through the gates with just a view of my DL. (that shows I'm a vet)There is a National Cemetary at Ft Leavenworth as well as the Command and Staff College where 1/3 of all field grade officers in all branches of the Military attend a college level course about the tactics of war. I was amazed at the lack of security at that facility on our latest visit considering the amount of military senior brass in attendance. With Tinker AFB employing hundreds, are the gate security personnel openly armed?</blockquote>

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