On October 28, personnel with the JBER – often pronounced, fittingly, as “J-Bear” – Wildlife Conservation Law Enforcement Office responded to reports of a bear in a storage room on base. Upon arriving at the scene, they found the room had been the site of a bruin snackfest, with a mess of open food packaging scattered about, according to a statement from the base.
Images sent to CNN by the base showed open MREs strewn across the floor, though it is unclear what flavors they were. Bears apparently indulged their sweet tooth, too, with an open packet of M&Ms visible in the mess.
In another incident on November 2, JBER personnel responded to a bear inside a motor pool building. Upon arrival at the scene, agents observed a 1-year-old bear sitting inside the driver’s side of a Humvee.
Personnel later opened several exterior doors and “employed tactics to get the bear’s attention” and subsequently drew the bear outside of the building, according to a statement from JBER.
So if a bear can get in, seems like a human probably could too