Thank you for sharing.
— Old Phantom Phixer (libertylover)
Re walking around on the flightline: When I worked on F-4s a special badge was required to get on the flightline and once in a while, the SP would arrest someone trying to get on and would take them to jail. It was always some kind of paperwork screw up that would get resolved by the end of the day.
Getting into the alert area with planes loaded with nukes required a 2nd special badge.
Oh yes. Don't know what it is like now, but back in the Seventies when we did nuclear loading practice at sea, members of the Marine detachment aboard would station four Marines to each plane, and I even saw one unobserved sailor who wasn't watching where he was going and cut through the perimeter get taken to the ground hard by a Marine sentry.
They took it very seriously.