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F-16 Fighter Fires At School In New Jersey
www.nbc10.com ^ | 3:56 pm EST November 4, 2004 | www.nbc10.com

Posted on 11/04/2004 1:55:59 PM PST by crushelits

F-16 Fighter Fires At School In New Jersey

Incident Happened On Training Mission


LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. -- A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission Wednesday fired 25 rounds of ammunition that tore through an intermediate school. No one was injured.

The military is investigating the incident that damaged Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School shortly after 11 p.m. Police were called to the area when a custodian heard what sounded like someone running across the roof of the school. The custodian was the only person in the school at the time.

Police Chief Mark Siino on Thursday said police officers noticed punctures in the roof. Ceiling tiles had fallen into classrooms and there were scratch marks in the asphalt outside the building. The 2-inch long bullets are made of lead and do not explode, said Col. Brian Webster, commander of the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard.
 It was unclear why the shots were fired, Webster said.



TOPICS: Front Page News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: f16fighter; fires; newjersey; school
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1 posted on 11/04/2004 1:56:00 PM PST by crushelits
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?????????????


2 posted on 11/04/2004 1:57:02 PM PST by BenLurkin
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This is not a good thing....unless of course this was a public school.


3 posted on 11/04/2004 1:57:21 PM PST by JoeV1 (The Democrats-The unlawful and corrupt leading the uneducated and blind)
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To: crushelits

verrrrrrrrrrry weird.


4 posted on 11/04/2004 1:57:52 PM PST by SunnySide
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middle of the night

???


5 posted on 11/04/2004 1:58:07 PM PST by eyespysomething (1 day out, and the Dems still don't get it.)
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To: crushelits

Pilot should lose his wings. No excuse for this in the CONUS.


6 posted on 11/04/2004 1:58:19 PM PST by MediaMole
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GULP.


7 posted on 11/04/2004 1:58:26 PM PST by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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Sounds like someone's going to lose their wings for this. And likely busted down a rank or two (if not drummed out altogether). Yikes.


8 posted on 11/04/2004 1:58:28 PM PST by Prime Choice (Laura Bush is like everyone's sweetheart. Teresa Heinz-Kerry is like everyone's mother-in-law.)
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To: crushelits

rumor had it that Michael Moore was seen taking secret refuge
at this school....


9 posted on 11/04/2004 1:58:38 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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The 2-inch long bullets are made of lead and do not explode, said Col. Brian Webster, commander of the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard.

The usual load. It's called 20MM TP.

10 posted on 11/04/2004 1:58:59 PM PST by demlosers
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That school is about 10 miles from me.


11 posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:01 PM PST by mware
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To: Prime Choice

Screw that. Discharge him altogether.


12 posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:08 PM PST by Utmost Certainty
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To: crushelits

Further evidence of the safety of home schooling.


13 posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:11 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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Somebody is going to have their flying priviliges revoked for quite a while... that is a big boo boo on the pilots part...


14 posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:11 PM PST by Americanwolf (I voted for the future of America today..11/02/04..... I proudly cast my Vote for George W. Bush)
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someone have abeef with the school???


15 posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:27 PM PST by markman46
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Drat!

Missed the NEA donors ... 8<)
16 posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:31 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: MediaMole

most likely you are correct.


17 posted on 11/04/2004 1:59:39 PM PST by Americanwolf (I voted for the future of America today..11/02/04..... I proudly cast my Vote for George W. Bush)
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To: crushelits

Pilot Fired From 7,000 Feet At School

New Jersey public schools were closed Thursday because of a teachers convention. The Ocean County school is scheduled to reopen Monday.

The pilot of the single-seat jet was supposed to fire at a target on the ground three and half miles away from school on the Warren Grove firing range, Webster said.

The military firing range covers parts of Little Egg Harbor, Bass River and Woodland townships in the southern part of the state.

"We don't know what happened that caused the gun to fire," Webster said.

The plane was 7,000 feet in the air when the shots were fired. The gun, an M61-A1 Vulcan cannon, is located in the plane's left wing.

"The National Guard takes this situation very seriously," said Lt. Col. Roberta Niedt, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. "The safety of our people and the surrounding communities are our foremost concern."

The jet that fired the rounds was assigned to the 113th Wing located at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The fighter jet returned there after firing the shots, Webster said.

Webster would not identify the pilot or detail possible disciplinary measures.

Mike Dupuis, president of the township's Board of Education, said there were no precautions the school district could have taken to prevent such an incident.

School workers are mindful that the range is nearby, he said.

"Being so close to the range, that's always in the back of our minds. It is very scary. I have children in that school and relatives that work there," he said.

The school houses students from grades three to six.

The range has been used by the military since the end of World War II, long before the once-rural area was developed.


18 posted on 11/04/2004 2:00:16 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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bump


19 posted on 11/04/2004 2:00:16 PM PST by keats5
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Bush's fault


20 posted on 11/04/2004 2:00:17 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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