Submitted by Brett13 on Wed, 03/26/2014 at 5:31 am.I am a retired Navy CPO and work on NOB.
My questions is... Why was this "contractor" given access to the base after taps and did anyone validate his bill of lading?
Installations onboard do not normally take deliveries after working hours unless arranged in advance.
I stood many a gate guard during my 20 yrs of service and this person's need to be onboard after normal working hours would have raised a red flag for sure.
Ship's don't take deliveries after taps and if they do they are well aware of who and what is being delivered.
Regardless of time of day an 18 wheeler should never be permitted onboard without a valid lading and POC at end point."
Are you suggesting that if "they shot him almost immediately" this is proof of decent security, Vermont Lt?
Savage managed to drive his company's rig to the dock by virtue of that TWIC. Another scenario with multiple intruders driving an unchecked rig to the destroyer at the dock by virtue of a TWIC could prove far more catestrophic, don't you think?
I thought you were talking about security AT the ship, not on the base. No, this guy should not have been on the base. Which is why him getting shot at the boat indicates THEY were about as “on the ball” as they could have been.
Sorry for the confusion.
A misconception here is that he was not actually driving a full rig, but the tractor only.
His most like story at the gate would be that he was there to pick up a now-empty trailer that hadn’t been fully unloaded before he finally left to go into town for food, fuel & required rest period. No bill of lading needed coming in, because no trailer, let alone load.
Not intended to excuse or mitigate anything about the security; just a correction of what he was driving.