• We are now running on a new, and hopefully much-improved, server. In addition we are also on new forum software. Any move entails a lot of technical details and I suspect we will encounter a few issues as the new server goes live. Please be patient with us. It will be worth it! :) Please help by posting all issues here.
  • The forum will be down for about an hour this weekend for maintenance. I apologize for the inconvenience.
  • If you are having trouble seeing the forum then you may need to clear your browser's DNS cache. Click here for instructions on how to do that
  • Please review the Forum Rules frequently as we are constantly trying to improve the forum for our members and visitors.

Requirements to carry to work - would you comply?

shaun

Regular Member
Joined
Apr 30, 2013
Messages
56
Location
Fountain CO
eye95 is correct. When I travel to home station for drill weekends and annual training, I have to notify the sentry that I have a registered personally owned weapon that I am transporting to the armory. I do stop prior to arrival of the installation and place my handgun and magazines in separate locked cases. I can check out and in whenever I leave/return base but under no circumstance can I access the contents of the cases until out of the gate. I actually used to call a day ahead to let them know I was arriving but I don't anymore.

Not all bases provide this, I'm fortunate the installation commander provides the service. On top of that, I'm not required to check back in at the maximum 72-hour point from removal from armory, since they consider me as transiting.

And to OP ... NO CARRY. Open or concealed. Transporting of firearms for non-housing residents varies installation to installation, as it is left to commander's discretion, so always check with the location before attempting to do so and if you have the luxury of using the armory, know the shift change times to save a lot of waiting.
 

shaun

Regular Member
Joined
Apr 30, 2013
Messages
56
Location
Fountain CO
Just saw OP edited and wasn't looking to carry. My bad and I can't figure out tapatalk to allow me to make an edit.
 

OC for ME

Regular Member
Joined
Jan 6, 2010
Messages
12,452
Location
White Oak Plantation
Thread: Requirements to carry to work - would you comply?


.....pay check.....no pay check.....pay check.....no pay check.....pay check.....no pay check.....pay check.....no pay check.....
 

OC for ME

Regular Member
Joined
Jan 6, 2010
Messages
12,452
Location
White Oak Plantation
Fortunately I did not take up a gun until after I retired.

I used to service strategic assets at NWS Charleston and worked on the design and testing of the MTS's there (now NNPTC/NPTU). As prior enlisted I had considered getting my .17 Remington 700 on base, but thought better of it.
Dude, you used to work in Goose Creek. Don't jazz-up what you did up at the weapon station.

Strategic assets......it wasn't all that and a bag of chips.

I'm from SC and the Low Country to be specific.....strategic assets, too funny.
 

OC for ME

Regular Member
Joined
Jan 6, 2010
Messages
12,452
Location
White Oak Plantation
Nope, never worked in Goose Creek. It was an Abram MBT that blocked the road occasionally, and not your "bag of chips." I used to shoot at Arlyn Pendergrast's ATP Gun Shop and Range and at RPM when it was out near the Angel Oak. I worked at CNS, C.2340x and travelled to all East Coast submarine facilities.
Jarheads did not use mbts, never saw one used in almost 20 years out of Charleston riding fast boats. Jarheads provided all the security for the WS, and the shipyard (during refueling). Boats went to the WS for "strategic stuff", strategic stuff did not go to the boats either at the shipyard or the piers further down the Cooper. We had to import Jarheads from the WS after the det left the navy base. I don't even know if they have Jarheads up at the WS anymore, could be rent-a-cops by now.

Charleston AFB did not do "strategic stuff" because it is also a civilian airport, Air Mobility Command, MAC back in the day, with a few fighters out of Shaw, up in Sumter, from time to time.

The WS was in Goose Creek, Google it.
 

OC for ME

Regular Member
Joined
Jan 6, 2010
Messages
12,452
Location
White Oak Plantation
An SSBN was a strategic asset. I was SSN-660 plank owner. Because you didn't see something means nothing.

ETA: QFT
Unless you were at a different WS, in Charleston, than the one in Charleston (Goose Creek) then your claim of mbts is rejected. Jarheads used some kind of six wheeled armored car looking thing and hummers. Not one mbt was used on the WS. Now, there were mbts in Charleston, sometimes, brought in by rail, at that Army depot where they loaded them on ro-ros, but none were used by the Jarheads, on the WS, for security.
 

OC for ME

Regular Member
Joined
Jan 6, 2010
Messages
12,452
Location
White Oak Plantation
Passed more light house than telephone poles......and?


  • The Order of the Blue Nose for sailors who have crossed the Arctic Circle. - Seven times
  • The Order of the Red Nose for sailors who have crossed the Antarctic Circle. - Once
  • The Imperial Order of the Golden Dragon for sailors and marines who have crossed the International Date Line. Three times.
  • The Sacred Order Of The Golden Dragon for sailors and marines who have crossed at the same time Lat. 00-000°, Long. 180.00° - once
  • The Order of the Ditch for sailors who have passed through the Panama Canal. - Once
  • The Order of the Rock for sailors who have transited the Strait of Gibraltar. Too many to count
  • The Safari to Suez for sailors who have passed through the Suez Canal. - none
  • The Golden Shellback for sailors who have crossed the point where the Equator crosses the International Date Line. _ Once
  • The Order of the Sand Squid for Sailors who have been attached to army units or stationed in the Middle East. - None
  • The Emerald Shellback or Royal Diamond Shellback for sailors who cross at 0 degrees off the coast of West Africa (where the Equator crosses the prime meridian) - Once
  • The Realm of the Czars for sailors who crossed into the Black Sea. - None
  • The Order of Magellan for sailors who circumnavigated the Earth. - Once
  • The Order of the Lakes for sailors who have sailed on all five Great Lakes. - None
  • The Order of the Spanish Main for sailors who have sailed in the Caribbean. - Too many time to count
  • The Order of the Sparrow for sailors who have sailed on all seven seas. ( North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic Oceans. ) - Once

So there.....:p
 
Top