bliddel

Hostility on the part of the military has to be because they really genuinely think a terrorist's first choice to destroy a military airbase would be a small general aviation airplane, and that tactics would involve telling the military control tower that you are coming in for a landing. While I find it hard to believe that people are really that stupid, I have to acknowledge that the TSA is built on the same hysteria and stupidity, and so are cops who shoot innocent unarmed people and dogs because they "feel threatened". Sad.

rickair7777

A lot of strange things have happened, and an airplane landing at a secure facility could be a diversion, carrying protestors, etc.

Keep in mind most civilian airplanes which land at military fields do NOT have a legitimate emergency, they usually made a mistake...this means they almost certainly landed without communicating first.

Try driving a small truck through the front gate of a military base without stopping...you will be shot dead, and for very good reason. A lot of US service members have been killed by truck bombs.

If you have a legit emergency everything will be fine, but security forces will initially ensure that you're not armed or hostile. They are doing their job, and everybody on the base (including civilians, family members, and kids in day care) depend on them to do that job.

I think the military does a good job with wayward civilian aircraft...none have been shot down, and no one has been shot on the ground. What are you complaining about?

Are security force types often meatheads? Of course they are...otherwise they'd get a different job. But they are properly trained and supervised meatheads, at least in the military.