Fort Meade shooting
According to the Washington Post, two people tried to ram the gate at the NSA part of Fort Meade, Maryland this morning resulting in the death of one of the fellows;
One person was killed and at least one other person was injured, according to two law enforcement officials. Few other details were immediately available about the incident which occurred around 9 a.m.
Anne Arundel County Fire officials confirmed that they had sent units to NSA’s facility but said they could not release any information because the incident is on the NSA property.
Just before 11 a.m., NSA officials said they had no further information.
CBS News reports that it was firefight;
One person was killed in a firefight that erupted Monday after a car with two people tried to ram a gate at the Fort Meade, Md., military base near a gate to the National Security Agency, according to preliminary reports cited by two U.S. officials.
The officials said a firefight ensued after the car tried to crash the gate, and at least one of the two people in the car died. Fort Meade is home of the NSA.
Other news sources are calling it an incident, so I guess it’s somewhere between a firefight and an incident.
Reports now are that the two in the car were dressed as women.
Update from CBS News;
A U.S. law enforcement official told CBS News that officials believe the two people who rammed the gate were men dressed as women.
A federal law enforcement official told CBS News that a small amount of cocaine and a weapon were found in or near the vehicle.
One of the suspects who was shot in the incident was identified as Kevin Fleming of Baltimore, U.S. law enforcement sources told CBS News. Fleming, who was hospitalized, has a lengthy criminal record including for assault.
Category: Breaking News
From other accounts, it sounds like it was impressive shooting skills by the gate guards. Wonder if they were military or civilians?
Probably Civilian. Military guards would probably have ammo locked away for “security”.
Good shooting and situational awareness.
Could be either. Both DASGs and MPs man the gates and all are loaded and chambered. I wonder about the “fire fight” comment.
Most of the gate guards there are civilian.
NSA has its own police force, and many are former Military. While I’m not 100% on their training practices, but they have their own ranges on Ft. Meade and they are constantly in use and full, so draw your own conclusions.
Most NSA side of the Fort Meade gate guards are former military. NSA runs their own police force.
Get some!
Nice shooting.
I disagree. Good shooting would be both dudes in the car dead. Now the wounded dude is gonna survive, say some shitty story, probably get a book deal, then after a loooonnng trial go to jail until Zerobama use the presidential pardon to set him free, and the dude will become a hero to the lefties and muslims.
Anyway, the religion of peace strikes again.
This comes on top of the SECDEF’s stupid comments about future force.
if it isn’t broke don’t fix it.
1. If we don’t want to fix it, let’s break it.
2. If we try to fix it, we will break it!
3. The simple act of attempting to fix it will destroy it!
4. Forget that. Let’s just jump right to the breaking it part and skip all of those facile excuses.
Or, my personal favorite:
“If it ain’t broke, fix it ’til it is!”
From photos on one of the local news’ web site, one of the injured appears to be a police officer. He was on a stretcher with his left arm in a sling.
“A U.S. law enforcement official told CBS News that officials believe the two people who rammed the gate were men dressed as women.” — this makes it sound like two transvestites decided to invade NSA.
Or dressed as muslim women?
Inquiring minds want to know. 🙂
Probably ISILs Super cross dressing Transvestite ops unit.. LMAO.. So far 0-30 her and abord…
I suspect an aborted attempt to rescue Bradley Manning and their GPS malfunctioned….
I suspect it was a “Sandy Berger June 2004” operation.
The goal was to get someone inside so that the person could gather up all documentation and information re: Bergdahl, and stuff it under the dress in a “pregnant bundle” like shop lifters do.
An investigation, which will assuredly be suppressed or waved off as “tinfoil hat stuff”, will show our Pretender in Chief’s finger prints all over the operation. I mean, actual finger prints. He forgot to wash his hands after scarfing down one of those greasy burgers he has the secret service cater for him whenever the wife ain’t watching.
This is a pretty interesting development. I’m curious, but trying to stay away from the news, as I find the first 24hrs of any story are full of bogus information. Got to give the facts some time to settle–dressed as women?–really?
Yep, next headline: NSA attacked by two trannies high on coke
I heard they were two transgendered men fleeing religious persecution in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Can’t be. It was a Ford, not a Jag.
Anybody want to take bets that the two who attempted to ram/run the gate, their names are Abdullah and Mohammad (or something similar and appropriate to their country of origin and/or religion – native or adopted)??
And that they were dressed in burkas?
I’m giving odds. On both.
If they are, we’ll never find out about it. The government won’t release their names and will just claim they are trannies with no known reason for wanting to attack.
Work place violence.
NBC, quoting sources, said the men, disguised as women, were in a stolen car. A guard shot at least one of the men and a gun and drugs were found in the vehicle, a Ford Escape.
One federal law enforcement official told Reuters the incident appeared to be a local criminal matter.
Again, some local ingenious personnel from P.G. county involved in felonious illegal activities that didn’t finish grade skools and never learnt how to reads that can’t read the Big Sign that said N-S-A.
The took a very, very, very wrong turn.
Splash-OUT.
🙄 😀
According to the updated report at the WASHINGTON POST web site, the guy who was killed was a known local felon with a lengthy record.
So, it likely was not terrorism, but criminal stupidity.
Sounds like ‘suicide by spook’ to me.
More like suicide by nerd. Have you MET some of these dorks at the fort? LOL!
I’d have to take your word for it. The closest I’ve ever been to the NSA folks is the TV series ‘Chuck.’
What the testosterone-fueled culture of the military doesn’t understand is that there are indeed “spooky” jobs that involve talking to people and flying a desk all day. If there’s anybody that meets the “spook” criteria, it’s an intel person regardless of how cool they look or whatever.
Maybe they thought NSA meant New Safe Area.
A place where everyone is protected from the repercussions of their recent actions.
Or, this is a cover story to not recognize that we just got attacked once again under the Zerobama administration.
According to the latest reporting:
It was two men dressed as women. A senior U.S. official said that one of the two people in the car is dead. A separate source says the other person has been taken to a hospital and is undergoing shock trauma, while an officer has been injured in the arm.
If I hear anything else I can share I will.
UPDATE:
The NSA issued the following statement:
Shortly before 9:00 AM today, a vehicle containing two individuals attempted an unauthorized entry at a National Security Agency gate. The driver failed to obey an NSA Police officer’s routine instructions for safely exiting the secure campus. The vehicle failed to stop and barriers were deployed.
The vehicle accelerated toward an NSA Police vehicle blocking the road. NSA Police fired at the vehicle when it refused to stop. The unauthorized vehicle crashed into the NSA Police vehicle.
One of the unauthorized vehicle’s occupants died on the scene. The cause of death has not been determined. The other occupant was injured and taken to a local hospital.
One NSA Police officer was injured and taken to a local hospital.
The incident was contained to the vehicle control point area on the perimeter of the secure campus.
This information is preliminary and the FBI is leading the investigation.
The National Security Agency is grateful for the swift response of the NSA Police, as well as the support of the FBI, Maryland State Police, Fort Meade Fire Department, Fort Meade Emergency Medical Services, the Anne Arundel County Fire and Police departments, and other offices.
NSA takes seriously the security of its workforce and facilities.
The FBI issued the following statement:
“FBI Baltimore is investigating a shooting incident which occurred this morning at a gate at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade just off I-295 in Anne Arundel County, MD. The shooting scene is contained and we do not believe it is related to terrorism. We are investigating with NSA Police and other law enforcement agencies. Our Evidence Response Team is processing the crime scene, and FBI Agents are doing joint interviews with witnesses. We are working with the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland to determine if federal charges are warranted. We have no further information at this time to release.”
Today’s lesson, children:
The lesson also pertains to any military installation, Three-Lettered Agency, or civil police roadblocks.
Test on Friday.
Class dismissed.
Can that exam be graded on a curve?
That test is always graded on a curve, Hack.
‘Course, for 240 grains moving at 900fps, the curve induced by air resistance and gravity is rather negligible for the 1st 50m or so.
Here ended the lesson.
You boys are disappointing me – where’s the woman drivers jokes?
Ducks for cover from all the wimmen here…..
😉
OC
My wife has been fired as my navigatrix more times than I can count over the years–but she has never gotten me shot. If I’m to be shot, she will be the one to do it, probably after one of my patented ‘shortcuts’ with the scenic views of nothing.
No…REAL women WILL generally stop and ask for directions, AND WILL FOLLOW THE OFFICER’S ORDERS.
Which, come to think of it, is probably why they got lit up. They weren’t acting normal!
Since they were actually men dressed as women, would women driver jokes still be applicable? Maybe one of them was Elaine Ricci.
I’m waiting to hear they should be excused because they are poor confused transgendered kids, and should have their hormone treatments and surgery paid for by the government.
Update from CBS News;
With that record he has on the Maryland Judicial Search website, he should be selling software to the federal government.
Got turned around on my one visit to Mead and ended up trying to access via the NSA side of the highway.
Didn’t work out.
They were polite but VERY firm.
Pre GPS navigation.
The printed google maps looked like the road would cross back into post.
Nope.
While it is connected you still have to have the right credentials to enter through that particular gate, (normal DoD card ain’t gonna do it). Back before 9/11 Ft. Meade and that area used to be open access and I saw many a Meade housing resident take that off ramp as a short cut home. However, since 9/11 its been locked down.
Looking back I believe they thought I was an intrusion test.
Nope.
Just ate up.
And in uniform.
Try driving up to the main gate at CIA and asking if they have a gift shop where you can buy a coffee cup or something. They are nice about it but you don’t get to pass go or collect anything.
I think that they learned something from that lunatic who pulled up to their gate, pulled out an AK, and started shooting.
So, two confused dudes dressed up as women, got high, and tried to park in the NSA parking lot?
Okay, got it.
And accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake.
You forgot and ramming a police vehicle.
I predict it will turn out that the two dudes got really high, thought it would be funny to drive around dressed as women, then took the wrong off-ramp (the one that says NSA Employees Only) and were so high they couldn’t understand the gate guard’s directions on how to exit.
If Bernath had sons???
They would’ve crashed their plane into the front gate.
Sad but true.
Similar thing happen at Howard AB during Operation Just Because.
A group of Panamanians decide that they wanted to see what would happen if they just drove thru the first check point into Howard. So they did not stop and just kept on driving towards the next one.
The guards at the first stop notified the next checkpoint that there was a car load of Panamanians heading there way that just ran the first checkpoint.
Well the second checkpoint decided to reach out with and show the gate-crashers the “Long Arm of the L.A.W.” It did not go very well for the people in the card. But we at the Joint Causality Collection Point got to practice our skills that night. Do not remember the injuries, they were messed up, or how many died, at least 1; but they did discover what would happen if they ran a checkpoint.
It turns out that it was a car load of drunk Panamanians celebrating and decided to do a drunk and stupid thing; on the assumption that that nothing would happen because they had planned on turning around before reaching the second checkpoint and crash the first going the other way. They “knew” that the Americans would not shoot first and ask questions later; but they did not take into account all of the signs telling about “Deadly Force” or what a L.A.W. could do.
There was a cartoon made about this incident and the “Long Arm of the L.A.W.” right after it happened.
“A U.S. law enforcement official told CBS News that officials believe the two people who rammed the gate were men dressed as women.”
Okay, here we go. It’ll start showing its ugly head everywhere. Transvestites, upset over the slow inaction of the Pentagon on allowing them to serve openly, will be running gates and checkpoints nationwide. I mean really, men who dress as women… it’s a BROAD coalition.
I feel sorry for the dating set these days. Instead of a birth certificate, they’re gonna have to start asking for a karyotype.