GTA was the first thing that sprang to mind!
"Security incident" at RAF Mildenhall
- Thread starter squerble
- Start date
Air bases will have gates designed so emergency vehicles can crash through them, though primarily designed so the fire engines on the airfield can quickly deal with a crash that has occurred outside of it they could also be crashed through the other way. I doubt anyone attempting such a thing would get very far though.
Soldato
- Joined
- 4 Aug 2007
- Posts
- 22,397
- Location
- Wilds of suffolk
Oh just read he tried to bluff in via the main gate and then force his way through.
Sounds like a nutter frankly, anyone who has ever been on a base knows they look kind of easy to get into but the reality is quite different.
Sounds like a nutter frankly, anyone who has ever been on a base knows they look kind of easy to get into but the reality is quite different.
Wrong......
The reason being that you don't know where the rounds are going to end up thereby presenting a danger to everyone nearby.
And before anyone questions my knowledge of British ROE I spent 18years as a RAF Police NCO on live armed security duties.
Then only time I have ever had an ROE that allowed warning shots was when on Operational Deployments to Bosnia, Kosovo and Croatia.
They will have both USAF guards/MP's and MOD Police who may or may not be armed.
Generally the crash gates are only on the airfield/technical side of the base/unit.
No as a 5.56 round is not certain to do the job so you aim at the driver.
Vehicles around an Osprey are usually picking the pieces up again
Chancers trying to get in happens a lot I think. You can get quite a hefty prison sentience for trespassing on a military base, so they are dumb.
But yea, it might look like you could simply drive through a fence or climb over it to get in, but they have motion sensors covering the whole perimeter so they will know and it will get an armed response every time. I've heard of soldiers being pulled up for climbing OUT before (they were drunk)
Last edited:
Yes it's a military base, you must know you trespass there you get shot, not hard is it.
Nice
Apparently it is, unless bullets are now capable of dishing out cuts and bruises.
Soldato
- Joined
- 13 Apr 2013
- Posts
- 13,648
- Location
- La France
Active USAF bases have USAF Security Forces manning the gates, not MoD Plod.
USAF Security Forces aren’t exactly trained to Delta standards. Having known a bunch of USAF types in the past, they did well to hit the car and not each other.
LMAO.
My point remains, situation depending, UK forces only ever either fire lethal or warning shots.
18 years as an RAF police NCO on live armed security duties though, thanks for the laugh. I'd spend more time worrying about SyOps if I were you Mr Crane.
Do rounds from a .50 cal rifle or gpmg fired into an engine block count as warning shots?
When/where did that happen? As I said, this is all situation depending. I'm sure you know as well as I do that in this situation a vehicle wouldn't be aimed at by British guards, the driver would.
I'm not speaking for USAF, I have no idea what they do so I'd be happy to hear.
Depends on the ROE - warning shots were fired by British troops in Afghanistan plenty of times, including at vehicles. So I wouldn't necessarily make definitive statements like UK forces only even do X or Y.