I remember Chefguy had a really good precis on the whole process in some thread here. Every 15 years must be a pain, especially for higher clearances, given my understanding of the backlog to get the process finished. For a SSBI, I thought they were running 24-36 months behind, and I’ve no idea if the renewal is as much of a PITA as the initial investigation.
Wait until the defenders unleash the 1920s-style death ray, reverse-engineered from alien technology recovered from the spacecraft that crashed at Roswell in the '40s.
Depending on the crowd, they may just get their smartphones out for the airshow.
I think the air force has a plan for this contingency. They have bought up a lot of alien costumes and when the people storm the gates, they are going to run into a shit load of aliens. It would be almost like independence day, when the aliens do things, sexual things to the gate crashers.
So Burning Man South…
The Air Force should charge admission. “Better food than the Fyre Festival!” “More computers than BlackHat!”
At least the handful of Majors doing most of the work for the Colonel get to read humorous things like
Was the first thing I thought. It may actually turn into mainly a rescue mission for the security force.
400,000 twelve year olds on the internet can’t be wrong, shit it going down.
I work on a military base, and just in the 10 years I’ve worked there, there have been multiple incidents of deranged people trying to drive on base unauthorized, and the DoD police, i.e. the kids standing at the gate with M-16s, absolutely will and have opened fire on them.
And we’re a freakin’ hospital. 
Yes, lets run a half marathon through desert conditions (and there won’t be water stations) and then you find the trained soldiers who have been sitting in the shade with their loaded weapons in front of the locked doors. And this is assuming they don’t bother to send some fighter jets along the way to make it a bit more of a challenge. Sounds like a great idea to me.
I suspect their collective thought is that the government will decline to use lethal force on all these smartphone wielding, unarmed intruders. I would hope that there are still some levels of government that don’t look forward to reading the headlines “US military kills hundred of unarmed civilians”. All they need to do is call the guard’s bluff, overwhelm them with sheer numbers and take control.
I, myself, would be outraged! Outraged that there wouldn’t be enough Darwin Awards to go around!
This wouldn’t fall under the category of some government atrocity, it would be a case of “bull messed with, horns received.”
I hope that the DOD gets more creative than just “buzz the kids with fighter jets”. C’mon, guys. You don’t have much to do out there in the desert, you have time to dress up an MH-X Stealth Blackhawk copter… so it looks like an alien ship.
Or at least buy a couple Stealth Quadcopter Drones off Amazon and make them look like flying saucers.
There’s no point in this. Most people would just laugh it off without even acknowledging the creativity. These interlopers aren’t “most people” though. Many would just see it as evidence to reinforce their belief and they would make an even bigger problem down the road. I wouldn’t do the modern jet flyover either. It would just give too many of them a thrill.
Can you load lachrymatory agents / tear gas / pepper spray into a crop duster?
I want to see Area 51 put out a mothership from Independence Day and hover it over the sightseers.
Word is that the Area 51 guards are going to deploy a giant net.
All of the captured intruders will be herded into corrals and sold at federal auction.
Now over 600,000, and military has issued warnings:
Mentioned it on the Dope before, sometime in the early 90s, perhaps as early as 1989 I was mired several cars back from the main gate NOB Norfolk VA when a protester decided to stop standing around yelling and ran the gate, when a bunch of Marines out doing PT dogpiled the moron … no shots fired, the gate guards were laughing.
I always had fun on Dependent cruises, I gave up doing the fake qual card thing after the third or fourth cruise I did. It wasn’t fun taunting the poor junior officers after a while. Pity that the combination of playing 688 and reading Janes for fun makes a female who has the tiniest amount of comprehension of militaria distressing for the poor junior officers. <shrug> It was much funner just hanging out in the machinery spaces with the husband and our buddies anyway.
While looking for a movie theatre, a Russian colleague and I unknowingly drove onto a United States Air Force base. Our first clue was when a uniformed guard ran onto the road and demanded we pull over and roll down the window. I so wanted to tell my friend, who was driving, to ask him where the “nuclear wessels” are, but thought the better of it when we saw the guard’s machine gun.
Now it’s reached 1.3 million.
Someone mentioned the distance of over 10 miles from perimeter fencing to actual base facilities - what if the raiders breached the fence, but then continued by vehicle instead of by foot, driving their cars that distance of 10-20 miles? (hypothetical, of course, since again, no more than a dozen are likely to actually show up)