Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center: Security Forces?

[kalos72]

Anyone know what type of security forces one would find at a location like this?

Turns out its just north of Galveston...the ability to launch comm or surveillance satellites would be pretty nice to have.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Don't know about the 1990s period but certainly in the 2000s they used private security firms to provide everything from armed guards to security locks. So it's not inconceivable that they were using private companies to provide armed guards in the 1990s.

[James1978]

Originally Posted by kalos72

Anyone know what type of security forces one would find at a location like this?

Peacetime or wartime?

From what I can find, NASA sites seem to have contract security. Apparently the security force at the Kennedy Space Center is around 150 or so, including a SWAT team. I get the impression that security at JSC would just be gate guards, roving patrols, some physical security at mission control, etc.

Turns out its just north of Galveston...the ability to launch comm or surveillance satellites would be pretty nice to have.

There are no launch facilities at JSC. It's a training, R&D and administrative center.

[CDAT]

Originally Posted by James1978

Peacetime or wartime?

From what I can find, NASA sites seem to have contract security. Apparently the security force at the Kennedy Space Center is around 150 or so, including a SWAT team. I get the impression that security at JSC would just be gate guards, roving patrols, some physical security at mission control, etc.

There are no launch facilities at JSC. It's a training, R&D and administrative center.

I was in some training with a guy from NASA security, in addition to everything above they also have armed helicopters (miniguns out the side) he showed up photos of all this just did a web search for it on public computer.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by kalos72

Anyone know what type of security forces one would find at a location like this?

Turns out its just north of Galveston...the ability to launch comm or surveillance satellites would be pretty nice to have.

I never thought of that...

As for launching from Galveston, there's a private company gearing up to do that (IIRC), but it's way outside of the T2K timeline.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I never thought of that...

As for launching from Galveston, there's a private company gearing up to do that (IIRC), but it's way outside of the T2K timeline.

Along those lines, would either side have bothered to use a nuke on the Ariete launch facilities in French Guyana? And if not -- the base is a major training base for the Foreign Legion -- did anyone get stuck there? Did the French try to get them out? Did they become a local security force for civilians in the area?

[stormlion1]

Private Security for the most part but really good money that around a launch its beefed up by Military Units on site and probably on call from nearby military bases. NASA might be a civilian agency, but it does launch military equipment so they would have a reaction force available and they wouldn't trust a military payload to a civilian security force.

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Along those lines, would either side have bothered to use a nuke on the Ariete launch facilities in French Guyana? And if not -- the base is a major training base for the Foreign Legion -- did anyone get stuck there? Did the French try to get them out? Did they become a local security force for civilians in the area?

NATO Vehicle Guide (V2) lists the 3rd Foreign Legion Infantry Regiment as stationed in Kourou, French Guiana with a strength of 350 men.

I thought I read somewhere that the launch facilities were intact and the French were still in full control but I'm not sure where (I thought it might have been in the NATO Vehicle Guide but it only lists the Legion Regiment in the French order of battle and doesn't go into any detail) so it might have been speculation / fan work.

[kalos72]

I understand it may not have launch facilities but surely a bunch of NASA training scientists can help put together a small ICBM like rocket capable of launching a satellite.

Still need a functioning comms satellite you can work however...

[Targan]

Originally Posted by kalos72

I understand it may not have launch facilities but surely a bunch of NASA training scientists can help put together a small ICBM like rocket capable of launching a satellite.

Still need a functioning comms satellite you can work however...

When you say "put together" do you mean assemble from a full suite of existing parts? Because in the middle of the Twilight War it would be difficult to say the least to manufacture from scratch any rocket capable of reaching orbit.

[RN7]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

NATO Vehicle Guide (V2) lists the 3rd Foreign Legion Infantry Regiment as stationed in Kourou, French Guiana with a strength of 350 men.

I thought I read somewhere that the launch facilities were intact and the French were still in full control but I'm not sure where (I thought it might have been in the NATO Vehicle Guide but it only lists the Legion Regiment in the French order of battle and doesn't go into any detail) so it might have been speculation / fan work.

It was me who put that in a T2K article I wrote up a decade ago on Bryn Monnery's 2300AD website.

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by RN7

It was me who put that in a T2K article I wrote up a decade ago on Bryn Monnery's 2300AD website.

I knew I'd read it somewhere!

[rcaf_777]

Here's some infor on the subject

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal...ement_agencies - at the end

http://www.calea.org/calea-update-ma...aining-academy