I spent eight long years in the USAF security police (the old name for security forces) in the 1990’s.
If there were contingency plans to send the wing to the FRG the wing’s security squadron might also deploy and reservists could arrive at the home base to take over operations there. For example, when I was stationed in Japan we had contingency plans to go to a certain base in Korea if something kicked off over there. Then some reservists from Stateside were supposed to arrive at our home base in Japan while we were deployed.
They could also form a provisional security unit using personnel from a variety of other installations. We had provisional SP units in Saudi Arabia throughout the Nineties. Personnel for these units came from other bases with what we called a “mobility” commitment or mission. When I was at a base with a major mobility mission we had probably a quarter or a third of our guys deployed somewhere (usually somewhere hot and dry) at any given time. When I was in-processing at this base I was also doing my contingency mobility out-processing, so I was ready to be deployed. You were ordered to have a bag packed and it wouldn’t be unexpected to suddenly send 3 or 5 or 13 guys to another base.
If the wing was going to a base that was currently operational, there should be existing security units there. The newly arriving wing would increase the number of personnel required, so those would probably be pulled from other bases and deployed to the forward operating base. Any cops currently at the base would probably be working additional hours, at least until the manpower situation stabilized. In an emergency we could pull people from other jobs, hand them an M-16, and send them to watch a fence somewhere along the perimeter - but that usually didn't work out too well.
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