Posted on 06/21/2010 8:42:55 AM PDT by BP2
The Lakehurst section of Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst is on lockdown this morning, base officials said.
The lockdown went into effect at about 9:15 a.m., Senior Airman David Carbajal said. The lockdown means no one is allowed to leave or enter the military base.
Local police have cars and barricades blocking off Route 571 west of of Route 70.
The lockdown was briefly applied to the Dix and McGuire sections of the 40,000-acre base, but is now in effect only at Lakehurst, Carbajal said shortly before 11 a.m.
The New Jersey State Police has sent resources to assist with the incident, said State Police Detective Brian Polite.
No further information was immediately available.
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Probably another UFO alert.
This is NJ & when does a FedEx guy carry a gun? It is hard to get a carry permit here. I don't buy this story. Nor the other one about a homeless man in the woods shooting of guns. I know Jackson/Lakehurst & guns going off in the woods isn't uncommon during weekends. I think we aren't supposed to know what happened.
Oh the Hugh Manatee!
We had dirt bikes.
We used to be able to take our dirt bikes onto the Dix military reservation, at a point immediately southeast of McGuire's main airstrip, entering without any checkpoints from a public road, and then ride the terrain, on the Dix reservation, for miles east of there, nearly all the way to Lakehurst. The only warnings we got at that time were warning signs in and around an artillery practice zone. The main "occupied" area of Ft. Dix, itself, was a pretty open base with four public county roads passing through it - without checkpoints; two traversing the post going north and south and two going east and west.
Have not been through the area in years, since before 9-11, so I don't know what the access conditions there are today.
ROFL.
Oh, the humanity!
...heard this AM it was a “open gate” discovered that prompted the alert.
That’s Hangar One NAS Lakehurst, NJ, the site of my first US Navy “A” School(ABH) in 1980!
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