Posted on 10/13/2005 11:10:36 AM PDT by BronzePencil
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky.
Soldiers doing physical training at this base were fired upon Thursday morning, and a fellow soldier was arrested a short time later.
No one was hurt in the shooting and no charges had been filed as of midday, but the soldier arrested by military police had been found with a handgun that was not military-issue, Fort Campbell spokeswoman Cathy Gramling said.
Five shots were fired at the soldiers as they exercised near the 1st and 2nd Brigade headquarters, Gramling said. It was not immediately known whether the arrested soldier belonged to the unit that had been shot at.
The soldier's name was not immediately released. Fort Campbell officials declined further comment.
Fort Campbell, a sprawling military base on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, is home to the 101st Airborne Division as well as Special Forces. More than 20,000 troops from Fort Campbell are in the process of deploying to Iraq.
Mike
Wonder if the shooter was related to Sgt. Akbar?
Sounds like a way to get out of a deployment. Five shots and it sounds like they all missed.
Maybe he was on an early morning bender.
I've logged literally thousands of miles of running on Campbell, PT and recreationally- when I was enlisted, I would start from quarters in Lee Village and run to the other side of post, through Warner Park, telling my self that someday I would live on the "other side of the tracks"...finally made it there in '92...
My post was largely in jest.I did my BCT and AIT at Ft Knox
('69/'70) but was never stationed at Ft Campbell.I wonder
if you were ever fired upon during any of the voluntary or
involuntary PT you did at Ft Campbell!
did my BCT at Knox also...in '74- don't think I was ever shot at during PT, but a friend and I were held up at gunpoint in the 326 Engineer parking lot, two days before payday...both of us broke- the most valuable thing we had between us was a 12 pack of Bud...it was high adventure...we ran off toward the barracks, laughing like maniacs...
I told my kid, "I'll bet you $5 that the shooter's name is Mohammed." She wouldn't take my bet.
A few years back, wasn't there some jackass that did the same thing? I can't recall if he hit anyone.
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