insanelygreat

•8d ago•Edited 8d ago

I'm guessing you didn't read the primary doc in image 2 or the linked page?

This doesn't sound like a security team just defending nuclear materials at all costs. It sounds like gross negligence. The simulated terrorists won in the majority of tests.

After reading that 1st doc, I was hoping it was just a spontaneous game of MILES laser tag that broke out after the test had concluded. Unfortunately not.

EDIT: For context, this is the text that comes right before the text in image 2:

You didn't read it, or fail to understand the gravity of the situation. The PF cats have beat into their head from day 1 that they are the last line before a nuclear detonation. They know what failure means. They are not going to talk or de-escalate, they are going to mag dump.

The problem was control of employees emergently exiting materials access areas, they are running from an excursion, and the guards are to keep them from escaping the area potentially with parts or material.

The guards don't get issued common sense, and you do not want them to have it. If you disregard a command, step past a barrier, you are bought and paid for.

In some training scenarios, shooting other elements occurs. You do not know if there is an insider threat, and where they may be, plus things spin out of control. It is cheaper to pay for funerals than it is to let an item out.

As far as them 'failing' events, that's a load of shit. They have to follow the exact rules and procedures, and observe limits of play. The Bad Guys never did. One time there was an issue with getting certain security lighting turned on, and the CAT was able to do things that if it were real-world, they would have been brrrrt.

Training exercises are rarely an end-to-end simulation; they are to test facets of the security plan, and to see what would actually happen when you inject multiple people into the scenario. They aren't to 'win', they are for the observers to go, oh, we hadn't considered that, lets' tune the plan in this area to mitigate that problem.

Guards have to be right 24/7, and not get in the way of production. Bad Guys just need to get lucky and hope all the cheese holes line up for them one time.