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This wasn't a harmless protest our local Knox paper makes it out to be. Here's what I don't get. Several times a year the protesters all gather at the facility gates. Well Duh who's going to see them but the workers? LOL. I can think of a much more visible place like near the Bethel Valley interchange. But no the protesters seem to want to show up several times every year at the gates of the plants and push the envelope just a little further and that is how & why this happened.

I've been deployed with nukes stored below where I ate. A detachment of USMC would guard the entrance hatch with a fully loaded rifle. None of us were stupid enough to test their resolve. The protesters think the guards are strict? I've had a rifle pointed at me so many times I can't count. It was at least twice a week during Chow they held a security alert. That meant the Marines went jumping across tables and chairs on the mess decks.