Originally Posted by
SASless
You can imagine the measures taken in a hostile location when such vessels pull into Port.
As you say in a US port you would assume (not always correct), that everyone is working with the same goals and intent.
In a hostile environment that will not be the case, yup, you may be paying Jonny $100 a week to man guns (when local wage is $5 a week) to prevent anybody transgressing an area but local baddies have Jonny's son as a member / hostage. Jonny just ends up being too slow to react or the gun "jammed" when needed or he fired and missed.
2 or 3 $50 inflatables with paddles, 2-3 RPGs per inflatable and guys knowing whatever happens to them, family will be provided for everymore, are what keeps Navy security drinking Maalox by the bottle.