[fire_eye]

This plane should have done anything - to include sacrific their lives if the equipment and classified material aboard could be kept from enemy hands.

There shouldn't be any need. The plane should have been equipped with Thermite destruction devices strategically located everywhere necessary, with both timed and a dead-man activation systems. We have many systems fielded that way - including document destruction systems. Marines in field command posts have thermite grenades available to place on filing cabinets in case they get overrun.

Navy is criminally negligent in this. Air Force Security is *laughing* at them (Trust me on this one...). What *should* have happened - and what any decent security officer would have planned in advance in this case - is that the plane should have exploded in flames, with multiple thermite detonations, about 2 minutes after the last soldier exited, arming the self-destruct mechanism on the way out.

This is a no-brainer... Navy security is *criminally* negligent in this. The individual soldiers are completely innocent.

[Bobby777]

The plane should have been equipped with Thermite destruction devices

that's what I was thinking ... idle the taxing aircraft *away* from large objects (other planes, buildings) to about 15 mph, everybody jump out, last man sets the Thermite charges or so and claim the plane was already on "fire" and had to be abandoned ... crash equipment might have gotten to it, but I doubt it ... it would have been a good burn ... the ChiComs can still catch RV-135's, etc. with their fighters ... I hope we're taking the appropriate precautions ...