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Originally Posted by Robbie
Not talking about the bases here in the U.S.
I'm talking about all our military bases overseas. I always though our troops had shifts standing guard. Nope. It's outsourced companies protecting our troops!!!
When my brother told me that, I was shocked. He also told me that they don't even cook their own food anymore.  |
The only base I used to go to semi-regularly was Ft. Meade, which of course houses the NSA (it's main building 50 feet from the highway... which I could never figure out... the base itself is HUGE but mostly empty) and there are nothing but MP's with assault rifles manning the gates.
I was fucking a guy assigned and living on the base pre-9/11 and there was a single guard at the gate when I'd visit him. Now it's a dozen. Trigger fingers ready. The message is clear: you're not wanted there. God forbid you end up there by mistake like I did one time when GPS threw me off and they refuse to believe that GPS lies (how many people a day must end up there with the same GPS software) and guns were trained on me the whole time I had to pull in the gate to turn around in case I tried to gun it further in.
So I just googled and that apparently is not the norm now.
This was particularly disturbing:
Afghans Linked to the Taliban Guard U.S. Bases - NYTimes.com