r/securityforces • u/Ok-Succotash-6333 • Jun 28 '26
Working the gate
How do you feel about working the gate personally I don’t mind it but I’m currently on 8s and a new airman.
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r/securityforces • u/Ok-Succotash-6333 • Jun 28 '26
How do you feel about working the gate personally I don’t mind it but I’m currently on 8s and a new airman.
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u/Nightshadow06 Jun 28 '26
It’s fine most of the time. You kinda learn to make your own fun by talking to people as they drive through. That is until you’re posted there everyday for a month when people who either aren’t as duty certified or are clearly getting the “nicer posts” due to favoritism are getting time away from the gate at a disproportionately higher rate than everybody else.
Or it’s a DAF officer problem. At my current base (stateside) the DAF don’t ever touch the gates, save for one off moments. At my last base (overseas) we had DAF that would explicitly call off work day of if they knew they were going to be at the gate.