Posted on 11/04/2004 1:55:59 PM PST by crushelits
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.
It was unclear why the shots were fired, Webster said. |
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This is not a good thing....unless of course this was a public school.
verrrrrrrrrrry weird.
middle of the night
???
Pilot should lose his wings. No excuse for this in the CONUS.
GULP.
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.
rumor had it that Michael Moore was seen taking secret refuge
at this school....
The usual load. It's called 20MM TP.
That school is about 10 miles from me.
Screw that. Discharge him altogether.
Further evidence of the safety of home schooling.
Somebody is going to have their flying priviliges revoked for quite a while... that is a big boo boo on the pilots part...
someone have abeef with the school???
most likely you are correct.
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.
bump
Bush's fault
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