Posted on 04/08/2016 7:31:07 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Law enforcement responded to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on Friday on reports of an active shooter.
The Bexar County Sheriff posted on Twitter about the reports at 9:50 a.m., ET.
Sheriff tweet.
About 25 minutes later, the same account said officials were working to clear the base's buildings.
Sheriff tweet 2.
Soon after, the Sheriff's account said "we have victims" at the still active scene.
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I remember it that way too. Canine school in 1979 or 80 I was there.
Were you asking the same questions when Cruz used the BLM protests to what he thought was his advantage? The fact is, this supports 2 of the main things Trump has been talking about. First, military personnel should be able to be armed on military bases. Second, if it does turn out to be a Muslim extremist, that’s obviously something Trump has been talking about non-stop. So yes, Trump should get out in front of this because it draws a clear cut distinction between himself and the rest of the candidates.
Ping!
I would say never, until we get rid of the shadow jihadis at the top, starting with obozo, valjar, brennan, etc.
prayers
Murder-suicide.
The situation appears to be over.
Nope. It would hurt him in my eyes. Using a tragedy for political gain is 100% sickening. The best thing he could do is offer very simple and heartfelt condolences to the victims. Period.
Fundamentally transformed . . .
Damn... again.
Still active in drum corps? Do you go to shows?
Workplace violence - Obama.
Your comment is disgusting.
You’re as bad as that other guy. How can I use these dead Americans to further my agenda?
Time for solutions is after the blood is cleaned up off the street and the dead have been buried.
But then you don’t really care about the dead do you. Just how you can walk over their bodies to further your personal agenda.
I was there 86-87. You guys used our dorm to train the dogs.
Until someone let his dog take a dump in the middle of someones room and didnt clean it up.
I agree.....at first I thought it may have been perpetrated by a roving band of Jehovah's witnesses.
Actually I think he was talking about personally owned weapons...not service issued...BillTheDrill posted about it
Shallow, really shallow,and vulture like for any candidate to jump on this for personal gain. Let me add that it would be despicable too!
Prayers for the dead and any injured, I hope the find the bastard responsible and kill him, soon.
In Richard Feynman’s book “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, he talks about working at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, and they had long security lines to get on and off the base.
He noticed that there was a hole in the fence within sight of the gate where the lower level/non technical workers (housekeeping, maintenance, etc.) would just walk on and off the base through that hole.
So one day, he walked through the gate, the officer there scrutinized his face and ID, waved him through, and he walked over through the hole and got back in line, doing this three or four times.
After he had been waved through a few times the officer looked confused, seeing him step up again, and began asking him what he was doing. Feynman pointed out the hole, and the guy was pissed.
When I was eight years old living as a Naval dependent in Yokosuka, Japan back in the Sixties, I was too young to get an ID card of my own, so I used to go to the part of the base where the dreadnaught Mikasa (From the Russo-Japanese War) had been preserved, and there was a hole in the fence down near the water that I could squeeze under to go off-base.
When I came back on base, the Marines at the main gate would pass me right through, apparently figuring I must have had an ID to get off base, so letting me in without checking was no big deal.
One day, as I sauntered back through, they stopped me, and when I couldn’t produce a military dependent ID card, they took me into the shack and interrogated me. It went something like this:
MARINE GUARD: Okay, why were you off base without an ID? We can’t let you in without one, you might be a spy.
ME: (sitting in metal folding chair in the middle of the guard shack with several Marines standing around me) Nobody ever stopped me before, and I’m not a spy!
MARINE GUARD: How do we know you aren’t a spy?
ME: Well, I’m not!
2ND MARINE GUARD: Okay, if you’re not a spy, who is your father, what is his phone number?
ME: (not wanting my parents to know I was going off base) My dad is away, and we don’t have a phone!
MARINE GUARD: Okay. Who won the 1967 World Series then? A spy wouldn’t know that.
ME: It was the St. Louis Cardinals! Lou Brock plays second base for them! (he was my favorite player)
MARINE GUARD: Okay. You’re not a spy. You can come aboard.
Heh, up until he asked me that question, I really thought they might have thought I had some nefarious purpose for coming on the base, as a kid might think. It was only later, I realized they knew full well who I was, since my Dad was the Security Officer on the base and was very likely their boss...and they were just giving me a hard time to pass the time!
Yet, a Pentagon Ranking Flag Officer stated yesterday that the military doesn’t need to carry weapons at all times on Base/Post/Fort.
I used to be a big Drum Corps fan back in the 70’s and 80’s...marched with 27th Lancers alumni in an exhibition at DCI back in 1994..:)
Loved Santa Clara and Blue Devils back then.
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