The Air Force has a Security Forces Augmentee program. Units from all over the Air Base have to commit personnel to the Augmentee Program. These are for the Flight Line Guard and positions such as that.
The Security Police did Law Enforcement and Security Forces did Guard and Base Defense. Security Forces did go to Training at Ft. Dix and received Infantry Training (modified of course) and should be able to mount a defense with any Infantry small arms.
I am sure that the AF is like the Army. When an Active Unit is to be deployed another Active Unit will take their place or take their place until a Reserve component unit is on station. (Slang is "Spun up" like the "1212th MP Company (Guard) is getting spun up for that mission.) It can take weeks to get a Reserve Component unit on Station and months to get a Guard Unit on station. You have to get them released from their training, bring them up to strength, deployment processing, and quals.
MPs back fill other units with individuals , Platoons, and Companies. Even sometimes to accompany units like Special Forces as Security for sensitive items in Host Nations.
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