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Military installations are currently at "Thread Condition Charlie", which is the second highest security status. That means that a trip to the base commissary that normally takes me an hour takes double that now because I have to wait in line for about 45 minutes at the gate. Immediately inside the gate, I drive through a maze of cement blocades to the guard shack. Once I get there, two MPs (wearing M-16's strapped onto their backs and sidearms in a holster) approach my car, check for my Department of Defense sticker and I show them my military ID. They also do random checks of some vehicles where the driver turns off the car, steps out and the MPs go through to make sure nothing is being transported onto base that shouldn't be.
It's inconvenient, sure, but I understand why it's being done and I don't mind. It's just really sad that it has to be this way!
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