TNNG shooting near Memphis
Pinto Nag and Chief Tango send us a link to real workplace violence episode near Memphis involving a couple of National Guardsmen who were training on a Navy base. Apparently, there was some kind of dispute and a guardsman went to his car and got a pistol, shot two others and succumbed to a tackling by other guardsmen before anyone else could get hurt;
One guardsman was shot in the foot and the other in the leg, the official said.
The incident did not take place on the base, the Naval Support Activity Midsouth in Millington, but at the armory, which is on Navy property.
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The wounds to the two victims, who were transported to the regional medical center, were not life threatening, officials said.
The suspected shooter was in custody in the Millington jail, a former Navy brig.
Apparently, this is the most important part that you should remember;
“This is not Navy related,” the military official told NBC News.
Whew! I was worried about that.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Thanks for clearing that up. We kept getting CNN breaking news updates on WSB that were all breathless, but short on actual facts. Noticing a trend here with the “breaking news” interruptions. Why not wait until you have all the facts and then tell me about it. The shooting was in Tennessee, so it’s not like the folks in Atlanta were in any real danger.
NAV SUP Activity Mid-South is the home of NAV PERS Command. All officer and enlisted detailers and all promotion boards are conducted there. NAS Millington used to be across the intersecting highway at front gate. NAS MIL was at one time the Navy’s largest avation training and combat ready air base. Today the base also has an Army reserve center, where aparently this incident took place. The Army reserve center is located between gas station and Navy recruiting command.
The area is a popular retirement area for military.
I routinely have been TDY to MIL to sit as voting member on E8 and E9 Boards.
BTW. The best thing about Millington is Memphis about 20 due south:
Top Picks:
1. Beale Street
2. Peabody Hotel (Mil discounts and duck parade)
3. Civil Rights Museum
4. Graceland
As a former Navy Recruiter, I can ALMOST understand his actions. I don’t condone them, but I can relate.
This did happen on the base … The armory, Army and or Guard IS on the base … They are a tenant command.
So there will be questions about how the red neck TN Nat Guard Army Armory guy got a scarey black killing pistol on to the Navy base through the highly trained, overweight, few toothed ding bat contractors at the front gate.
But what the fu@k do I know?
Thor–still not seeing what recruiting has to do with it per se, and isn’t Recruiter School still down in P-Cola?
That being said, yeah, I can think of a few CRF types in my time I wouldn’t have shed many tears for had they come to a violent end.
This is not Navy related. Makes me think of the scene in Gold Member involving the fellow with the large facial mole. Here it is w/o a damn commercial preceding it. Navy! Navy! Navy! Navy!
Navy Recruiting Command (active and reserve) is located at MIL just a few hundred yards from where the incident occured.
@5 In 20 years I have been stopped for exactly one routine spot check at NAS Corpus Christie. The resat of the time it’s just show ’em the ol’ ID card.
Sparky, I had read one article that the perp was a Navy Recruiter who got fired, relieved of duties or something like that. That was early on and I can’t find it again to quote it.
I’ve drilled in that armory when it was still part of the Sustainment Brigade (I think it has gone over to the MPs), it is literally across the street from one of the gates of the Navy Base and just up the street from Navy Federal credit Union. I’m curious to know who was involved.
My source says that they fired the E-7 recruiter and he went and got his handgun. One of the wounded is the OIC of the west region for TNARNG recruiting.
Thor he is an Army National Guard recruiter.
Just to be clear, there is an Army reserve armory inside the gate, which is home to one of the regional training units. But the National Guard armory is outside the gate, just across Navy Road from one of the gates (near a softball field and not too far from the golf course).
I went through Millington for my A school. Back then it was a whole lot of nothing out there.
@5 – Having recently been on a couple of AF bases as a civilian, I can say that even with frequent trips in and out of the gates, our vehicle was never searched once. In fact, most of the time, we didn’t have to show ID as long as we had someone with a military ID in our vehicle.
I’m not saying they should start searching everyone, but it is pretty easy to get firearms on base.
@16, Common Sense, in the recent past, I have breezed right past Air Farce gateposts after only flashing them my civilian Driver’s License!
#15 No shit! There weren’t even gate guards when I was there in ’73. Place was lousy with pimps and pushers at night.
Learned to sit way in the back of the theater in town to avoid beer cans coming from the balcony.
Got a cool picture of me at Elvis’s front gate. Hahahaha