Five shot at Ft. Stewart
First reports have an active shooter at Ft. Gordon(formerly FGt. Eisenhower, formerly Ft. Gordon) Stewart, Georgia and 5 soldiers shot.
Five soldiers were shot and wounded in an “active shooter incident” that has prompted a lockdown at a U.S. Army base in Georgia, officials there say.
In an update posted to its Facebook page, Fort Stewart Hunter Army Airfield said the shooting incident occurred in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area.
All of the victims “were treated on-site and moved to Winn Army Community Hospital for further treatment,” the post said, adding: “There is no active threat to the community.”
The shooting prompted a base lockdown which has been listed. From the phrasing of that last line, sounds like no one was killed and the shooter has hopefully been arrested.
Apologies; originally read Gordon – not sure what level of brain fart led to THAT one. Updates say the shooter was arrested within an hour.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Army, Crime
Sending prayers to the 5 and the base and families.
Hopefully not caught but room temprature neutralized.
Joining you in prayers for the 5 and families.
Not room temperature. Hopefully he “paid some taxes” when he was arrested.
Damn, hope the victims recover quickly. Military bases would seem to be a hard target, but as we all know, they’re one of the softer ones: everyone besides the on-duty MPs and civilian cops/security is unarmed. As much as I’d like to advocate for Soldiers to be permitted to carry, there’d have to be some limitations. I wouldn’t want PFC Sandbagger to be armed when his SGT tells him his leave was denied.
Brand new in BN command, I was activated as the casualty notification officer to notify the SNOK (mother) her son had been murdered at the BN safety brief by a loser who’d just received a field grade from him (2012, Fort Bragg). I can say that this example was on my mind every time we conducted UCMJ and I ALWAYS had the chain of command characterize service and recommend punishment, and I ALMOST ALWAYS imposed less punishment than the chain of command recommended (at minimum by suspending parts like the $$$$ forfeiture).
That makes sense, let the company leadership provide their recommendations, so the Soldier knows what might happen, then impose a bit less of a punishment. I knew some commanders who simply maxed punishment for every NJP. That only creates resentment and the perception that a commander is unjustly harsh.
I remember hearing about Bragg shooting. One thing about some Soldiers is that they can’t see the forest for trees. A relatively minor and temporary thing turns into a completely avoidable tragedy because some dumbass can’t accept his own screwup.
I was never one for maxing anyway. Especially money. But this even gave me a good reason to keep it up!
Ya, there are a lot of people I served with who have no business with a personal weapon. Recreational shooters were the only folks who could get a respectable score.
Mind you,this was on an Air Base.
RIP to the victims and best wishes to their families
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Like, in combat?
Combat Arms should be, you know, armed, at all times. Training to do their job the way they would do their job.
(Grin)
Seriously. Folks manage to walk around all day armed with no drama. So should Infantry. At least one 20 round “oh shit” mag and a bayonet.
Chapter anyone E-3 and up that can’t handle that.
Yes, they can handle it.
IDK, I knew soldiers who couldn’t handle a mop bucket without an NCO to tell them which end the water went in. You know the type, the ones that marry the pregnant stripper they met at McDonalds after dating for three weeks and then go on a 12 month deployment only to return to find out that she is pregnant again and MIA with the bank account and whatever of value that wasn’t tied down. Too many of those around to make it work.
But when sarge is telling him what to do and stays on his ass he is a “good soldier”, aka “bullet stopper”.
I’m hearing about an active shooter event on fort Stewart as well at 2 A BCT. Is it a full moon out today gentleman please watch your sixes This may get weird
PLEASE FIX HEADLINE SHOULD BE FT.STEWART!
Damn near had a heart attack as my son is down there now.
I should have paid closer attention (and glanced at the article). This happened at Fort Stewart (near Savannah), not Fort Gordon (Augusta).
The 2nd ABCT (formerly 4th IBCT) area is a compound just north of Main Post, off Hwy. 144. I spent my entire time in 3ID there (outside of nine months in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan), and it’s a fairly easy target. Only two gates, one of which is closed much of the time, and outside of gate guards and the occasional roving MP, no real police presence. When I first reported in 2012, the PX was a trailer located near the BDE/BN HQ building. For whatever reason, they built the new PX facility outside the gate. When it first opened, I heard of local civilians raising hell when they stopped for gas and weren’t allowed to buy tobacco or alcohol. Highways 144 and 119 run through nothing but training areas when you leave Glennville, Pembroke, or Richmond Hill, so the 2 ABCT Shoppette is the only gas for miles.
When I was assigned to HSC 92nd Eng. Bn back in the ’91-’92 time frame it was a completely open post, no guard shacks, no gate guards, nothing where as you said Hwys 144 and 119 enter the post.
I deployed with 4th BCT, 3rd ID in 2010 to Iraq, where we had our own mass shooting event, with three soldiers shot by one shitbag who is now a hard lifer in Leavenworth. Really didn’t spend much time at Stewart prior to the deployment and then left right after.
I’ll be sending prayers to those involved. My son called me back immediately (he is at Gordon, if that wasn’t clear, but has a couple of soldiers at Stewart right now that he hasn’t heard back from yet).
I arrived in early 2012 and went straight to 4th BDE S3. Just before I arrived, some jackasses from 6-8 CAV had plotted to take over the ASP, kill Obama, and do all sorts of other nonsense. They killed a couple of people in the area before they were caught: FEAR (militia group) – Wikipedia
Prayers for all.
You mean, of course, Ft. Stewart, GA.
Sorry, late to the party.
I spent time at Ft. Stewart during 1968. At that time Huey training was active there, connected with Hunter Field in Savanna.
There were quite a number of tank tables north and westerly of the main post. And a range farther away for helicopters (rockets, mini-guns, etc.) to practice gun runs.
Edited to correct direction of tank tables.
Isn’t that where they trained the ARVN Huey aircrews, at Wright AAF?
Could be. I was mostly at TAC X out closer to Pembroke. Were several Marine pilots there. Well student pilots, anyway.
I believe David Glitched
It’s Fort Stewart not Fort Gordon
Absolutely. No excuses.
Why the picture on the home page remains unchanged after the picture on the article was corrected – THAT I seem to be unable to fix. I blame it all on my dealings with the IRS. Any excuse in a storm.
Blame it on that Y3K software you installed that was procured from a spandex clad gentleman with hygiene issues selling software from the trunk of broke down piece of shit Jaguar near the River Road exit of the Capital Beltway.
Oh yeah! I bought some stuff from that guy a few years ago.
Snorted every ounce of it in one day.
Found out later I was supposed to use it to make bread.
I still think about muffins quite a bit.
With all the recent base renaming going on in the past few years, one needs a score card to keep current.
Shooter in custody and identified:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/08/06/active-shooter-at-ft-stewart-n2661491
The General, during his briefing, said the fire arm Bradford used was his personal handgun.
Quornelius Samentrio Radford
I didn’t even have to look at the picture [but I did] to know what particular group he belonged to…
Unfortunately. And not to my personal delight.
Claw’s Whiz Wheel can’t count high enough for this one.
Bag, Shit, one each.
Size: Large.
The shooter has been identified as Quornelius Radford.
A fine Mennonite family name. Where did he go wrong???
He got a Mennonite Basketball Jones, Chong and Cheech sung about it at Midnight, just ask the Bill Clinton.
Wasn’t that one of the leaders in Planet of The Apes?
Yep, the Mennonite Monkey.
Sounds like an Amish Anarchist to me!
Claw daddy’s Whiz Wheel’s gonna get a workout on that one.
Wanna bet his earlier DUI and the response from his command played a role in his actions today?
Hope he spends 40 in Leavenworth bustin’ rocks.
Why not justale it a round 10 years for.each person he shot and give him 50…
Works for this retired lawer. Use of a firearm to commit a felony that results in injury is supposed to add ten years to a federal sentence anyway.
Given how UCMJ works he will likely be a very old man when he gets out, if ever.
When he gets there of course other prisoners are going to ask what he did. When he tells them he shot five of his fellow soldiers I’m sure that will win him a lot of friends.
My bet is that he’ll be the Leper of his lockup!
About ten years back a Staff Sergeant on Quantico killed two junior Marines in the Barracks because he was upset that the junior male Marine was romantically involved with the junior female Marine that he he had as a side chick. Turns out that Staff Sergeant was residing in the barracks as an unauthorized occupant and also had a master key to all of the rooms. He must have completed the Marine Corps Playa MCI. Quite a few senior Marines in that chain of command were relieved for ignoring the situation. Maybe that’s the deal here.
Our shooter displayed fatherless behavior at an early age.
He is also a veteran of the wars with Hinesville Police, having recently been arrested for DUI.
Field sobriety tests are racially biased.
He can file a complaint from Leavenworth. He’s got nothing but time.
Yes. It is a known fact that the Omicron breathalyzer machine can sense skin color. That is why my one experience with one resulted in it sensing my white privilege. It said I only blew a .03.
Look him up Danno!
On his way to choir practice?
Completely off-topic, but Hinesville generates a lot of money from traffic enforcement. I lived in Pembroke before I went to Afghanistan but moved into Happy Acres trailer park when I returned. I was on the outskirts of Hinesville, but the obvious traps still caught my eye. Short turn lanes onto General Screven allow two-three vehicles, with plenty of dead space for five-plus more to get out of the way of traffic. That space, of course, had solid yellow lines and signs citing the city ordinance against crossing them. Similar signs are posted at businesses at major intersections, reminding drivers that they can’t cut through the parking lot to avoid stopped traffic. When I escorted a Soldier to the city court for a DUI charge (go figure), there were a lot of other Soldiers and dependents there for minor traffic infractions. Nearly all were found guilty and ordered to pay a hefty fine.
HPD doesn’t play, and while I was a heavy drinker when I lived there, I never went out into town, and I stayed close to home when I was off duty, unless I made a trip to Savannah or Waycross. I learned to simply obey the traffic laws down there (hard to do when you’re used to driving in NOVA) and never got so much as a speeding ticket.
The only time I ever received a traffic ticket from them, they kept my driver’s license until I paid the fine. That was 30+ years ago though, don’t know if they still do that or not.
I lived in Savannah when I was stationed there and never went to Hinesville till we got back from Iraq and then only for a couple of social functions. I heard enough stories to avoid the place.
He looks…..”special”…and not in a good way.
Literally…..the eyes….too close and tiny….
Shaving profile, of course.
He could possibly be Norse Pagan. Amazing how many I see on post. Mostly drill sergeants.
I have questions, about BG John Lubas.
Specifically, why is he wearing an EIB in his press briefing and a CIB in his official Command Photo? Then his bio says he has earned both, making him a rarer earner of the new MCIB badge, which there are no photos of him wearing.
Don’t get me wrong, anyone who has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan 12 times is on it, just curious what is going on here.
Whiz Wheel®™ results:
SGT Quornelius Samentrio Radford (FBBSDC)* 45 x 10 = 450
*Full Blown Bat Shit Drooling Crazy (H/T to Hondo)
Today I read that he was in pre-trial confinement over a recent DUI, so that alone makes him a slug in my mind. IMO he’s deserving of at least 40 or 50 in Leavenworth coupled with a DD. He looks like a barracks lawer as well, I wonder if he hasn’t thrown his ACME® Race Victim Card™ yet?
Being on pre trial confinement already means that particular line of credit may be overdrawn.
He wasn’t in PTC. His chain of command didn’t even know about it till after the shooting. His leadership wouldn’t lock him up for civilian charges anyway. Also I have only ever heard of PTC for a non-homicide DUI one time.
It was a Sergeant First Class (E7) who became an alcoholic after his wife split on him. He had 19+ years in and started getting arrested for DUI, four times to be precise. In his last year he went from E7 to E3. The brigade commander felt sorry for him and decided to let him retire as an E3. He had been a good NCO up till then. When he was arrested the fourth time the Brigade commander did lock him up until they could get him retired but it was really for the guy’s own sake more than anything.
Wow.
That dropped off the national noise rather quickly.
Oops. “News”
I liked that “yanked out of duty as-is for Impact Award” bit, especially the total-tat NCO in PTs, with an MSM on his tag chain. Nice touch. The person -reading- the citations… needs much more practice. Oy vey…
LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. — Just three months before U.S. Army Sgt. Quornelius Radford allegedly opened fire on soldiers at Fort Stewart, Radford found himself in hot water for a DUI arrest just a few miles away from the military base.
Radford, 28, is a Jacksonville native and was a logistics sergeant at the base. He is accused of shooting and injuring five soldiers before being tackled and subdued.
But an incident report is shining new light on Radford’s arrest just a few months earlier, in which he blew a red light and refused to submit to a DUI test.
The arrest report from the Georgia State Patrol says that Radford was arrested for running a red light on May 18 at 1:23 a.m. He was pulled over on Elma G. Drive in Hinesville, just three miles away from Fort Stewart in Liberty County.
The officer said when Radford stepped out of the car, he smelled “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath.” Radford’s eyes were watery and bloodshot, according to the report.
When questioned, Radford said that he had drank a beer two hours prior to the arrest, but his words were mumbled and he spoke with a stutter, according to the report.
The officer said Radford refused to provide a breath sample for the breathalyzer, and he refused to submit to the field sobriety test. Radford insisted that he was not drunk.
Regardless, he was then arrested and charged with driving under the influence, according to the report. He was taken to the Liberty County Jail for processing. Law enforcement turned Radford’s vehicle over to his husband.
According to Fort Stewart officials, Radford had not notified them of his DUI arrest, which is required for service members who find themselves in trouble with the law.
During a press conference Thursday morning, they couldn’t speak to how the DUI arrest would impact Radford involvement with the military, saying it is an individualized approach for each case.
Never forget the golden rule of crime; there is always more to it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/suspected-fort-stewart-shooter-charged-one-victim-was-his-intimate-partner/ar-AA1Kp858?cvid=6c5c96fa80d04d1cc02eea244353be38&ei=27