http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090804/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_terror_plot So much for the gun ban preventing things.
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2. terrorism, home and abroad, is not a George Bush / John Howard false bogeyman, but a real and continuous threat.
Padre, it all comes down to dollars. Hence uniform were taken off that duty in the first place.
Even the Mil coppers would have dramas trying to get access and issue weapons in the event an attack was made.
I dont even know if any bases have a QRF on standby anymore?
The main problem is actually knowing soldiers and sailors would HATE guard duty and so there would, I concede, be a morale problem, but there are plenty of hard-nosed RSM's and SWO's who would say "harden up Sunshine, welcome to the War on Terror."
Might as well hand over war fighting to civil service...
Finally we might get the order to say "Private Dunmall and Private Wallis, you are on guard duty in one hour"... But it'll be several years before that, and Chubb or Serco or whoever has the contract will fight for years to keep it.
Some of the civilian guards are so lazy. They don't care about the people they are "guarding"... they aren't soldiers. The running joke is often to see what you can show them instead of an army ID to get inside. The best I've seen work has been a piece of burnt toast and an army ID card with a picture of Bin Laden taped to it. The guard just waves you through if you hold anything up. It's pathetic.
Finally we might get the order to say "Private Dunmall and Private Wallis, you are on guard duty in one hour"... But it'll be several years before that, and Chubb or Serco or whoever has the contract will fight for years to keep it.
The guards at Lavarack check ID's pretty good. Had to jump the fence a few times when I lived in after going out pissed and leaving it at home.
Ever been to a real Infantry unit? The Infantry battalions have their separate guards within the base and the pogue units have duty rooms.
Mate I'm not talking about a units guard/guard room or a duty room. Yes even choccos have them you know... and as I'm sure you know the duty room and officer (or unit guard) are not really about security, they are there to deal with the drunken 'tards who leave ID cards home when they get trashed, close the boozer etc.... it's not real guard duty... But if you think that sitting by a phone in a duty room counts.
I'm talking about doing guard duty properly.
Go and see a "real" Infantry unit in the UK.... Go on Ex Long Look and see how it's really done.
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