So many pearl clutchers in this thread, guess what combined military and civilian airports exist. I have actually worked at one, I had both a civilian "airside security pass" and a military identification. The reason military just cant walk around free in the sterile part of an airport is that is that military are considered to have the same level of criminality as civiians. Hell there are posters here in this forum smugging about how they imported cigarettes and possibly other illegal **** into the UK, 'back in the day'. Thats why getting my airside security pass for sterile civilian areas was way more difficult that my military security pass