I have enjoyed reading about the duties of the APs. I go back further
than many of you and can remember hanging out with APs in earlier times
before it all went bad. In those days they mostly manned the gates,
checked traffic and walked the perimeter with big 135-pound German
shepherds. They were responsible for inner security only.

I recall a few occasions when angry farmers stood outside the main
gates, shouting and waving their wooden pitchforks, pissed of about a
runaway oxen or chickens that didn't lay or whatever. Within a few
minutes here would come a fully armed platoon of infantry, often
accompanied by an armored vehicle or two. That was the way it was done
in the old days. Now I see the Air Force has a dozen different color
berets. God bless em.