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Marines will be manning the entryways and patrolling these areas on a 24 hour rotating watch.

The ammunition storage area aboard a Battlestar is referred to as a magazine or the "ship's magazine" the by CDF crews.

Modern Battlestars use semi-automated or automated ammunition hoists. The path through which the cannons' ammunition passed typically has blast-resistant airlocks and other safety devices, including provisions to flood the compartment with foam or dump into the airlessness of space in an emergency.

A Battlestars Magazines are required to store not only for the ship's own integral weapons, but reloads for the Vipers and Raptors carried on board. All of these craft can carry different payloads.

The typical CDF Warships Magazine will have several of the following elements:

• Perimeter security, to avoid casual access by unauthorized persons
• Guards equipped and in numbers relative to the potential threat from enemy forces
• Magazines where ammunition is stored under lock and key
• Blast barriers, such as an berm or buried pit, to divert the force of the blast (typically upward, but sometimes to the side) in case the ammunition detonates
• Safety Distances are calculated between storage sites (magazines) and outside infrastructure to limit damage and set max holdings of net explosive content per site.
• A loading area for transferring stored ammunition.
• A flooding system in large warships to put out a fire or prevent an explosion in a magazine.
• An Ammunition Repair Facility or workshop will be found in many ammunition facilities. This facility is used for the repair; breakdown, inspection, and manufacture of ammunition held within or brought to the Magazine.

Nuclear Weapons Storage
Nearly every detail of nuclear weapons storage is highly classified, although many of the same principles of a Ships Magazine would apply. The one consistent factor is that every imaginable precaution has been taken, including the use of concealed and lethal security devices, to prevent theft or unintended detonation of nuclear weapons, even by a combination of intruders and suborned facility personnel.