Probing security in South Carolina.

IMHO it was a dry run to test security of a nuke weapons facility.

For those who have never been in the Charleston, S.C. area I'll say that this weapons station is off the beaten track. And that is a serious understatement! You don't just go idly tooling down the highway and find yourself near this facility. To give you an idea of what highway 176 is like in that area, I was once leaving the Weapons Station and found myself in a traffic tie up. After about 15 minutes of not moving I got out, walked up a ways to a few guys who were smoking and yakking to find out what the holdup was. Turned out there was a gator crossing the road a few hundred yards further along. Everyone there knew that hitting a gator would really mess up your front end, not to mention they're a protected species. In those parts gators had the right of way. We're talking some real country roads here.

Now admittedly my incident happend quite a long time ago. But since then they've closed the main base in North Charleston and scaled back the military presence overall. So there wouldn't be much in the way of incentive for any development there. It's still the sticks. The boonies. The place where you don't just happen to show up because you took the wrong exit off the interstate. You're only there because you've got business in the area. In this case, monkey business.

But our government is still taking the attitude of, "Nothing to see here, move along".

Noted.

This quote really puts me in stitches, ".... they a were simply on a weekend trip to North Carolina."

Yeah, right!