The story is no different from the numerous attempts made upon civil airports, Royal residences and other such establishments since 9/11. All it serves is to increase the sales of the particular tabloid involved, and only the typical brain dead reader feels that the journalist is doing any 'service' to anyone other than himself and his editor. It's hardly giving anything away to any terrorist organisations, as even the poorly organised groups could work out for themselves routes and times of entry to most military establishments if they wanted to. It doesn't take into account that the Sedcurity Service / MI5 are watching them anyway, but it might well prove useful to giving a 'gentle prod' to those who are trying to stay awake on guard duty. Guards on the gate are really a token measure to show some force - if they really thought we'd need to fire our weapons (bearing in mind that most main gates are right in line to a main road, some with married quarters directly opposite!) they'd issue us with a low velocity round (9mm MP5 anyone?) so that it wouldn't just go straight through the target, or whatever is in the way when we miss. The biggest deterent is to actually start studying the ID cards when you're on the gate - you just have to look how startled people are when you ask them to actually wind down the window and hand over the card, instead of just pushing it up to the screen whilst staring blankly ahead!!