Napoleon Jr. and the security badge - Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey Goodbye
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This happened back in the early 90s. I was stationed in Japan, we were a small secret squirrel facility.
Napoleon Jr, was the Marine Corps OIC (O3 - Captain), in charge of the security forces for the secure facility.
Napoleon Jr. got his rocks off trying to order Navy personnel around (these orders were outside the scope of his authority). This caused a lot of issues between him and the Navy officers. Now the Maries had 3 guard posts for the secure facility.
- Gate Guard
- Across from the quarterdeck (small closet with a dutch door that acted as a countertop guarding the entrance to the secure facility. This is approximately 150ft from the main door of the facility.
- Rover - Poor sucker who spent his entire watch walking in circles around the facility.
They also had additional Marines back at the barracks to act as a React (Reactionary) team in case something were to happen.
** Background Note - all personnel working inside the secure facility have to wear a special badge that must be worn at all times in the facility. We were taught as rule 1 never to mess with anyone else's badge; the only exception is if you find one unattended. Then you are required to take it and turn it into the watch officer. **
As everyone knows the military likes to run drills and the security forces were no different. They ran "react" drills, where they would send the team to the secure facility and (for lack of a better term), would secure it from an imaginary foe. Normally these drills were uneventful as they were conducted on nights and weekends. That being said as the secure facility was manned 24/7 sometimes Navy personnel were unfortunate victims. During some of these drills, the Marines seemed to enjoy, physically abusing the Navy personnel who were in or around the facility. It finally all came to a head when a Navy Lt Commander (O4) was at the facility on the weekend in civilian clothes. She was leaving the facility when she ran afoul of a react drill. She was walking down the corridor outside the entrance to the secure facility and was walking toward the main door when the Marines stormed into the building. They started screaming commands and when the LCDR did not respond fast enough to suit the Lance Corporal (LCPL), he grabbed her and threw her to the ground. Then he reach down and snatch the badge from around her neck. The chain she wore it on was broken and left a nasty scratch on her neck. Even after she was identified as an officer, she was treated badly (they refused to let her get up off the deck until the drill was over, and berated her for not listening, hard to listen when 4 people are yelling different instructions.)
I was coming out of the facility and saw the commotion thru the window and went back inside and told the watch officer. Our Warrant just happened to be there, he walked out and told the Marine at the door to call back to their duty desk and get Gunny (Their senior enlisted) out here immediately. A few minutes later the drill ended and LCDR came back up to the secure facility door so she could check her neck. Then she realized that the LCPL still had her badge. At that moment Gunny and Napoleon Jr. walked in the building and headed up the hallway. Warrant who was so mad he would have made a HoneyBadger look tame, met them half way. He started in on Gunny and Napoleon Jr. on how they need to get their people squared away. What they hell are the doing throwing officers on the deck and where did they get off touching a security badge. Gunny started to answer and Napoleon Jr. cut him off and told the Warrant that his people did what they were supposed to do and to fuck off. Then tried to push him back. Warrant grabbed the little bastard and slammed him into the wall. He was at least 8 inches off the deck and Warrant pinned him there by placing his forearm just below this throat. He told him that he was going to let him down and then he was going to get the hell out of our building, and if he ever came back without an express invitation they could take it out back and settle this like men, and to never touch his people again or they would never find enough of his body to be identified. Napoleon Jr's eyes where bugging out. Warrant dropped him and told him to "git". Napoleon Jr. quickly walked down the hall but looked over his shoulder several times.
Gunny was trying not to laugh, he apologized for what had happened and asked him to please relay the apology to the LCDR, and handed Warrent the her security badge. Then he told him that he will be making all duty sections go through additional training to make sure it never happened again.
Word got back to the Marines CO in Yokosuka, and Napoleon Jr. found himself kicked out of his OIC job a couple of months later. The Marines planned a huge goodbye party for him, and put up fliers for all over the base. I was working in the club as a part time bartender, when Napoleon Jr. walked up to Gunny and told her he was very happy that "his men" wanted to throw him a goodbye party but there was a mistake on the fliers. The date was listed as 2 weeks after Napoleon Jr. was leaving. Gunny stared at him for about 30 seconds and then replied "Yes sir, we know". Napoleon Jr. went beet red and stormed out of the bar area. Gunny drank free that night, and it the entire based showed up for the goodbye party.
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