Explosion at Travis Air Force Base gate
According to NBC News, a driver tried to get his vehicle bomb on Travis Air Force Base, but that the device only killed the driver instead;
“The guy came to the gate with propane tanks in his vehicle, he started reaching for what looked like an I.D card, started messing with a fuel ignition source to blow the propane tanks. He then drove into the outbound portion of the lane where he burned to death. The Airman was working the lane the driver came through attempted to save the man’s life, but the propane tanks burned the man up. We closed the 1 ton black gates manually. We didn’t know if it was a terrorist attack or a suicide, but we were using the word Bomb for the incident. He stopped initially to confront the guard, but the Security Force member screamed he had a Bomb and ran for cover. The car then sped off an burst into flames.
CBS News is reporting that the incident is being investigated as an act of terrorism;
The driver has been identified by law enforcement, but has not been named, according to CBS News reporter John Blackstone.
No shots were fired. The FBI is joining the Air Force in the investigation of the security breach.
One of these days they’re going to get lucky. They don’t need scary-looking, black rifles to kill.
ABC says that his name is Hafiz Kazi;
A man who was killed in a fiery crash at Travis AFB’s main gate has been identified as 51-year-old Hafiz Kazi.
Sources described Kazi as a “nomad” and a “vagabond,” who lived in many places.
Authorities extracted a video from his cell phone and are analyzing it to try and see if it could help point to a motive. Sources wouldn’t offer any details about the video.
Category: Terror War
Are the gate guards armed? And if not, why not?
Yes, gate guards are invariably armed, but that doesn’t mean they have the proper quick reflex to use them at the instant they need to, or not use them when they don’t need to. Shoot don’t shoot can be a real dilemma to many LEOs…
Armed or not, a pistol at close (<5M) range isn't a particularly good counter to a VBIED – particularly if it has a deadman switch.
When “Bomb!” is called, I suspect the normal reaction is to take cover.
You are pretty well guaranteed that the bomber is determined to die – and the chance of a deadman switch being triggered if you shoot him is pretty high.
Strange people out there.
Somebody yells “bomb,” all but the bravest or dumbest look for something solid to get behind or, failing that, try to get outside the blast radius. That’s basic survival instinct. The Airman who attempted to prevent the bastard from barbecuing showed tremendous courage. Trying to get someone out of a burning vehicle is scary enough. I’ve mentioned before that cars don’t explode. Cars loaded with propane and/or improvised explosives, however…
I hear ya’
TOW, I’ve seen a couple of “roasts” over the years during my active FF days but this one I have to say is Bravo Zulu, Pun intended.
Just asking- they used to be armed but it has been a while. I certainly agree the nearest guys need to unass the immediate area, I was trying to get an idea whether someone further away may have had a chance to engage. Sounds like a scenario which should be drilled.
Yes they are.
Civilian guards have pistols and the military guards have AR’s as well. M-4’s?
A M16 or M4 at close range against a VBIED doesn’t yield good odds, either.
Thats why they need uppers in .458 SOCOM or .50 Beowulf for gate duty. Those cartridges are designed to disable vehicles.
That, or mount an M2 at every gate….
When Ma Duce talks, people listen.
Nobody protects you like Ma
And projects (over 1 klick).
Keep in mind, if you shoot the payload, it will likely go off. You have stopped them, but it may be your last act.
Two Marines bought the farm that way, stopping a truck bomb that tried to run their guard post.
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?76317-The-Last-Stand-of-Cpl-Yale-and-Lance-Cpl-Haerter
In their case, I suspect they knew they would die if he got to them, and might die if they shot at him.
Whichever – those two are examples of men willing to lay down their lives for their brothers.
Six Seconds to Live…..
A speech written by Lt. General John Kelley.
First thing I thought of when I saw the word bomb and ducking for cover…
What brave young souls.
https://www.legion.org/magazine/101297/six-seconds-live
Beg your pardon David, Security Forces are not “gate guards”, rent a cop civilians are. These men and women are the current version of what was initially called Air Police when I had that honor then Security Police now Security Forces. You may recall they shot a sonovabitch trying to run the gate at Little Rock AFB and also Mildenhall or Lakenheath, England.
Roasted to death in his own mobile propane grille. Pardon my laughter and the pleasure I derive from his self cremating.
Instant Karma she done got him
Flared right up around his head
Those propane tanks he had exploded
Roasted him until he was dead . . .
How about posting a Spew Alert before commenting?
Geeze us Krist HONDO.
Clean starched shirt gone bad now.
Thanks.
Well, my work here today is done. (smile)
Yeah, that one probably should have had a spew warning. Sorry.
This place needs a like button and GIFs showing someone laughing til tears come.
Guess he was stuck at a, “Car-B-Que!”
FIZZLE-SIZZLE!
Shack!
*Fizzle Sizzle*
*Fizzle Sizzle*
*Squawk*
*Whistle*
Thought he’s get famous, Farce book or Twitter,
Fuck him now, he’s a Crispy Critter!
Nice!
Im sure he smelled like hotdogs!
USAF – 1
Sploded Terrorist – 0
Lets get a DNA sample and go after all the relatives now!
“Jeez. What’s that stink?”
“Oh. That’s just Ahmed cooking.”
Instead of barbequed goat, a barbequed goat-eff’er?
Ahmed’s Car-B-Q.
‘Car-B-Q’
Bwahahahahahaha!
Well played!
Out here at McChord Field the other night, we had a drug addled tweaker run a stolen semi tractor through the back fence, interfere with the active runway with C-17s taking off. The Truck stopped and he ran, leaving his wallet on the seat. The guy saw paratroopers coming down and he thought they were cops dropping to search for him. The local Sheriff deputies had to call base security to let them know that there was a big hole in their fence and someone was driving around a tractor on their flightline.
They finally got the guy, but damn, all that makes me feel so safe working out here.
Air Force base gate guards are “usually” E-4 and below or are contracted guards who are retired vets who have done security in their past. All guards are armed — usually 9MM. Some carry M-16s or they are close by in the guard shack. I do know that most bases have the bollards that sit a few hundred yards inside each gate that can be activated within seconds of illegal entry, the curbs where the bollards are activated are 3 to 4 feet high so there’s no “go around”. I would hope security on all the bases are somewhat the same in terms of the gates.
At Kirtland after 9/11 I was assigned as gate guard for about a year. We were armed with the M9 and supervisors were issued a M-16/GAU 5. we also had remote transmitters we wore when pushed activated the barriers and brought the wrath of the security forces
The heavy fog lifted one morning at NAS Jacksonville, FL, and revealed a civilian Cessna at the end of the runway, loaded to the gills with weed. Not a soul around, and no one was ever nabbed for it. Gates didn’t help here.
I work on an AFB and the guards are all with the M9 and there are the AF version of the M4 in the guard shack. There are usually at least 4 there and mostly E-4 and below.
This is the second time in a week someone drove a vehicle loaded with flammable material into a government building. There was an incident in Florida where a woman drove her car into a BSO sub station. Funny that she attended a Jihadi friendly local mosque. Odd, that we have not heard much about that. I wonder if the person at Travis is a recent convert or have an El or Al in his name.
Yeah. Pressies kinda embargoed that story for some reason….
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/florida_woman_deliberately_crashes_car_into_sheriffs_station_media_ignore_the_obvious.html
Might have been a hit-jab or something…
How about this one, the NAS JAX Barnett Bank was robbed in, I believe 1996. I was just about to rotate out of HS-1 when it occurred.
ON BASE!
There was an -epic- bank robbery gone bad on Fort Stewart in 1987 (might have been 88)
Two dingleberries robbed the Hinesville bank on-post branch,
driving a pickup truck rented in their names,
wearing stocking masks and their BDUs with name tapes.
At shift change for the MPs
At the branch bank next to the exchange snack bar where MPs tended to congregate.
Their flight was also comical and futile
The resultant shootout was epic, and of upwards of 50-100 shots fired, three hit the one shooting perp. Two were minor meat-graze hits. The one incapacitating brain shot was fired by a female agent ordered to stay out of the fight.
Did I mention the 270 degree MP firing arc? (None hit)
-epic- circus….
Hopefully the female agent didn’t get smoked for that.
A 270-degree firing arc pretty well says that the target is gonna die, unless they shoot like those MPs seemed to have.
If only 50 shots were fired by the MPs with 3 hits, that is a 6% hit ratio. Somehow I would expect better of MPs – but I’ve been wrong before.
One of the MPs present was a mailclerk, so we had lots of opportunity do discuss what happened.
He said he personally picked up 54 .45 cases. (Versus the “official” total of 17 shots fired)
He said some of those boys were on their third magazine before they were stopped.
Needless to say, there was a rather large block of range time and ammunition allocated to MP units after that.
Good. Although I know the adrenaline hammers you at a time like that.
One of my friends is an LEO who was involved in a running shootout with some escaped convicts here some years ago – and his account of the experience, coupled with the ability to reconstruct the times involved from the recordings, is eye-opening.
Range time alone doesn’t prepare you for that rush. And he is a lot more level-headed and collected than most LEOs.
That is why when we did our night shoot-house exercise at the British Army’s SAS CQB shoot, they made us run for four miles before we entered the shoot-house to engage the targets on a simulated hostage rescue.
When I was a gate guard as auxiliary security (every squadron had to send people to gate guard duty for 3 months at a time) at MCAS Yuma in 2004, we carried shotguns. The PMO guys with us carried their M9s. The usual routine was 1 PMO and 2 CMF outside with the other three inside – it was Yuma in August so we rotated in and out of the air conditioning every 30 minutes.
If I were being burned alive, I would be praying for a head shot.
Yep.
Thankfully, no one provided the bastard with that relief.
Huachuca had this assclown visit a couple days ago.
http://www.myheraldreview.com/news/crime/man-filming-fort-huachuca-gate-arrested-charged/article_d2953b5c-2e65-11e8-973f-43cf6097a8e5.html
youtube.com/watch?v=2PC8FHOKUiE
Didn’t you just post a video of someone blowing themselves up in a car the other day
BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!
Ft Campbell had a similiar incident by a (self proclaimed ) 1st ammendment auditor about 2 weeks ago.
Is it just coincidence this happened the day after you posted the VW ad?
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=volkswagen+terrorist+commercial&view=detail&mid=C6FFB0CE7D803A31C819C6FFB0CE7D803A31C819&FORM=VIRE
👍👍👍
I think it was luck more than coincidence. This happened Tuesday, just made the paper today.Smug bastard still claims he was on a public sidewalk, unfortunately for him, the post owns everything right up to the asphalt.
There was a similar incident at Ft Campbell about a month ago.
Oh well my embed skills suck so if anyone can properly embed this video feel free to do so.
I would have face planted that ass hole way before Officer Fisher detained him. Fuck heads being fuck heads win fuck head prizes.
I guess the perp in the car was really Burned up in that he couldn’t do any real damage except for his car. I wonder if the re sale on the car would lose it’s value over the interior damage. Hmmmmm.
Anyone have a light? Ask Mohammad AKA the Human Zippo
This just in. Democrats call for a ban on all large capacity propane tanks and stricter background checks of Home Depot shoppers. Introduce legislation to regulate barbecue grills.
NOT TO HE GRILL !!!!!!
I’ll give up my grill when you pry it from my cold sauce covered fingers!
When grills are outlawed, only, well, you know.
Now we have to worry about scary black SUVs????
EVERYTHING IS SCARY!! EVERYTHING!!!!
Apparently, the idiot ignored that the area was posted as “No Smoking”.
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ABC says that his name is Hafiz Kazi;
Veeerryy interesting.
The dead terrorist is also known as: Hafid Kazi, Hafez Rauf Kazi, Hafiz Qazi and Kazi Hafizoddin. He has a recent address in Sausalita, CA. He was President of ZNT International in Kissimmee, FL. Both he and the business have LinkedIn entries. “Manta” and “Corporation Wiki” both show information about the business.
“Sausalito, CA” not “Sausalta, CA”.
I hope mean “burned to death” really means like to “to death” lol
I was ‘just there’ about 1 mile from the Travis AFB entrance as i visited ‘Pick and Pull’ junkyard in Fairfield, CA. `
Whiz Wheel says:
Hafiz Kazi (SIBLDAM*) 37×6= 222
*Self Inflicted Bernathian Level Dumb Ass Move
We had a guy drive up to our local military base a few years ago with wired propane tanks. Nothing happened and we didn’t go public with it, but damn.
I must have travelled thru that Travis gate several hundred times.