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While male in red truck seen firing at training center two days in a row National Guard authorities in Hattiesburg said a shooter fired into the air near soldiers training at Camp Shelby on Wednesday morning It was in the same area where soldiers reported gunshots fired from a pickup truck a day earlier. The description of the shooter was the same in both instances, Patterson said: a white male in a red pickup truck

CAMP SHELBY, MS (WDAM) - According to The Department of Defense, at approximately 8:00 a.m. Wednesday morning shots were fired again at Camp Shelby. Soldiers training at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center reported shots fired into the air in the vicinity of Peret Tower Road and Highway 29 in Perry County, according to the news release. The shooter is described as a white male in a red pickup truck, make and model unknown. This is the same description of the man described to authorities during yesterday’s incident. The Camp Shelby Joint Forces training center is currently at a...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Authorities are searching for two men who fired gunshots from a vehicle at soldiers at a military facility in Mississippi, although no one was reported wounded, a sheriff said Tuesday. Perry County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith told WDAM-TV ( http://bit.ly/1UlrHi6 ) that the soldiers were training at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center near Hattiesburg.

<p>CAMP SHELBY, MS (WDAM) - Authorities are searching for two suspects that allegedly fired shots at a group of soldiers at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center.</p>

CAMP SHELBY JOINT FORCES TRAINING CENTER, Miss., March 4, 2008 – Fourteen soldiers with the Arkansas National Guard's 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team were injured last night when severe weather passed through Camp Shelby. Army Lt. Col. James Treece, commander of 217th Brigade Support Battalion, stands next to wreckage of a barracks at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Miss., March 3, 2008. Severe weather damaged the barracks and injured 14 soldiers with the Arkansas National Guard's 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Photo by Maj. Craig Heathscott, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Injuries were mainly limited to...

The following release concerns active duty and retired military personnel in the area impacted by Katrina who normally use AAFES facilities at Keesler AFB, Camp Shelby and Jackson Barracks. DALLAS -Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) officials have confirmed that its main BX at Keesler AFB suffered major damage due to Hurricane Katrina and will be out of service for an indefinite period of time. AAFES officials believe it will be a few more weeks before there will be proper assessments by engineers on the extent of the damage and a timeline of when the store can reopen. "The...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. — An Army chaplain testified Tuesday that a former National Guard soldier from New Jersey who accused a fellow officer of raping her was viewed as "untruthful" by military colleagues. Maj. William Cruz also said he counseled the soldier charged with rape, 1st Lt. Mike Hall, and found him trustworthy. "He was truthful to a fault," said Cruz. The testimony by Cruz came in the court-martial of Hall, 35, of Nashville, Tenn. Former 1st Lt. Jennifer Dyer, 26, has alleged that Hall raped her twice in her barracks room after an evening at the officers club at...