Officials at Fort Gordon said they could not discuss whether the incident at Fort Hood, Texas, has led to any security changes on post.
"If you should see something a little different, well then you see something a little different," said Marla Jones, the spokeswoman for Fort Gordon. "There will be changes that from time to time you can see, and changes you can't see. We don't talk about the reasons and that's always been the case."
Ms. Jones said Fort Gordon, like all military bases, has plans and procedures in place to both respond to and prevent such actions.
Any kind of shooting at Fort Gordon would face a "multitude of responses," including action by the post's Military Policemen and quick reaction team. A plans-and-operations team monitors the post via video cameras 24 hours a day as well, she said.
John Curry, the deputy garrison commander, said the Army Community Services and Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical Center offer services for counseling that could apply to anyone with issues because of Thursday's shooting.
No changes have been announced in regard to traffic in and out of the fort, Ms. Jones told The Chronicle on Thursday.
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this man was a terriorist...trying to turn him into a "mental" patient is a "spin"
Why would the Hood shootings effect that other post? How desperate are these printing operations? The local commander will determine that the security level is based on a threat level. Nothing has changed with that...
If it could happen at Ft Hood, it can happen anywhere else. How do you prevent something like this from happening? Unfortunately, the fact is, you can't. People of all religions call America home and are free to join the military. Muslims cannot, nor should they be, excluded from joining the military. Therefore, people - all people - must be more vigilant. If we see an abandoned suitcase on the sidewalk, we must report it. If we see militant ramblings on the internet from someone we know, we must report it. We are going to have to keep ourselves safe. Maybe we need to learn some lessons from the Israelis.
If some dude is giving away his furniture and passing out copies of the koran....maybe someone should have looked a little harder at him...this was a planned attack on this Country !
"Why would the Hood shootings effect (sic)that other post?" Just to clear your never-served-a-minute-don't-have-a-clue-obviously-don't-know-where-Ft Gordon-is mind. The military is a tight knit community, it has to be. Anything that affects some of us, affects all of us. Almost everyone in the Army has some connection to Ft Hood, somehow. Thirteen people are dead, 30 more are wounded & you're going to ask how desperate these printing operations are? How desperate are you for attention?
I don't think the shootings at Ft. Hood could have been prevented. I mean really, who is going to check a Major coming through the gate. There isn't always some kind of sign either. Sometimes people just snap. I know however that Ft. Gordon is the most wide open base I've ever lived on. Anyone can get on that post. They even advertise the golf course and riding stable as being open to the public. I'm really surprised that something really bad hasn't happened there.
That shooter showed red flags when he was in medical school. One of his classmates talked last night about the shooter's speech in class that was against fighting terrorists, and was not the speech that he was assigned to do.
The interview was on Anderson Cooper last night on cnn.
j4: Your statement is inane; anyone with a shred of intelligence can tell you what affets one agency affects another. Did you ever notice that when there is a prison riot, ALL other prisons in the state are locked down? That's because it's contagious. How would another military installation be able to discern if there were other individuals who were going to do the same thing that occurrred at Ft Hood? Therefore, the alert level rises until an 'all clear' status can be achieved. Obviously, you know nothing about security measures--and by the way, private industry has similar alerts.
In actuality, this is not that uncommon on Army posts; but usually it happens in Basic training and has always been on a much smaller scale. Every soldier I've ever known has told stories about how somebody went crazy in Basic and tried to kill people. In Basic, they expect it and watch for it. This time it was unexpected, it was an officer, it was terroristic, and he killed and wounded a lot of people.
justus4, you either enjoy throwing gasoline on the fire to elicit a reaction or you just lack intelligence.....or both!