CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A vehicle was halted Friday evening after the driver tried to make its way into Camp Pendleton, according to 1st Lieutenant Taylor M. Schrick.
There was an attempt to gain unauthorized access around 6:30 p.m. The Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Marshall Office then deployed so-called “final denial barriers,” which are physical barriers placed at the last point in a physical security plan where it’s possible to stop a breach.
Once the “final denial barriers” were used, the vehicle was stopped.
All the people in the car were taken to Palomar Hospital. Unknown how many people were in the car or the severity of their injuries.
The main gate to Camp Pendleton was closed for more than two hours but reopened at 9 p.m. Friday.
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Posts: 15251 | Location: Florida | Registered: May 07, 2008
Q, it amazes me how many times I will see something like this on the forum, utter a word out loud to myself, scroll down and see you have written the exact same word I had said.
Posts: 7253 | Location: Dallas | Registered: August 04, 2011
Stories like this is a downer for me. It makes me remember my favorite marine joke as a sailor about marines and main gates. That is, until Lebanon airport attack happened. That is one of those things etched indelibly in my mind. It's like superman getting actually wounded by a bullet.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
Posts: 19656 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011
Unfortunately, incidents like this are actually positive in as they're a reminder for the base commander and various unit commanders that security is important and not to be taken lightly or, brushed aside as a nuisance item on the big list of responsibilities.
Posts: 14649 | Location: Wine Country | Registered: September 20, 2000
Originally posted by corsair: Unfortunately, incidents like this are actually positive in as they're a reminder for the base commander and various unit commanders that security is important and not to be taken lightly or, brushed aside as a nuisance item on the big list of responsibilities.
Not to mention that it might have a discouraging effect on anyone seeking to emulate the gate crashers.
Posts: 6464 | Location: NoVA | Registered: July 22, 2009
This crap happens quite frequently, people normally hit the gate at the permiter fence when it is close even though there are numerous reflective signs, flashing lights, etc. Normally, it is someone blindly following their GPS or a drunk.
---------- “Nobody can ever take your integrity away from you. Only you can give up your integrity.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf
I wouldn’t crash a Marine gate anywhere. My son is a pretty new Marine at a tiny little base and on his first week he was on guard duty. And yes he had live rounds in his M4. I remember the bad old days where the guards had rifles basically for show. Not anymore. And I agree those barriers are no joke.
Posts: 7469 | Location: Florida | Registered: June 18, 2005
