Best thing to do, what I did was run under the arches and all the way to the table. and attract all the navy officers/veterans. then run out, and they'll disengage. The guard from the table will glitch out, an try to run trhough the wall, and the table willl be all alone. If you carefully run back to the table you should be able to search it, no prob.
Looking back though, i think i got lucky i guess
