To: quidnunc
Air Force basic training has a procedure of "Dorm Guards", which are pretty worthless except for making sure no one steals people's shoes from under beds and as training for what goes on at a military base.
I was pulling dorm guard when the TI bullied himself in behind a person I had cleared into the dorm. I would have never opened the door for him without clearance, but I didn't understand that I was permitted and expected to physically restrain someone trying to enter by bluster and force.
He chewed me out and wrote me up, and I learned how real security works.
16 posted on
04/06/2006 3:22:08 PM PDT by
narby
To: narby
I was pulling dorm guard when the TI bullied himself in behind a person I had cleared into the dorm. I would have never opened the door for him without clearance, but I didn't understand that I was permitted and expected to physically restrain someone trying to enter by bluster and force. Haha! Our TI used that same tactic... I learned a lesson from that poor dorm guard!
To: narby; quidnunc
On my first night of dorm guard, the TI kicked on the door and ordered me to let him him...
I freaked out, didn't challenge him, pushed on the bar, and allowed him to enter.
He proceeded to verbally rip at me, waking everyone in our flight up.
I regained my composure, and explained to him that the door latch was broken and there was nothing I could do to prevent him from entering...he went to the other side of the door to investigate the latch.
As soon there was 1/4-inch clearance between him and the door, I slammed that freaking door shut, looked at him through the little window, and shouted, "Sir, may I see your ID card and your authority to enter!"
I got a round of applause from the flight I was "guarding", the TI simply shook his head in self-disgust and left, never to harass me again!
31 posted on
04/07/2006 5:15:28 AM PDT by
baltodog
(R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
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