Posted on 12/14/2024 7:08:43 AM PST by bitt
Published: Dec. 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM EST|Updated: moments ago
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The all-clear has been given at a U.S. Army installation in east Georgia after it went on lockdown Saturday morning.
The Facebook page for Fort Eisenhower in the Augusta area posted the lockdown notice at 8:51 a.m., telling those “in danger” to take immediate action.
The post did not mention the reason for the lockdown.
At 9:49 a.m., Fort Eisenhower officials said in another Facebook post that the “dangerous event has passed” and the lockdown was lifted.
“All personnel can resume normal operations at this time,” said the post, which did not specify what the dangerous event was.
Fort Eisenhower, formerly known as Fort Gordon and Camp Gordon, was established southwest of Augusta in October 1941.
This is a developing story. Check back with Atlanta News First for updates.
What dangerous event? One of those Flying Oven drones?
My Dad was stationed at Ft Gordon. We lived in N August SC. He was a Master Sergeant and would come home with his fatigues dripping in sweat.
Someone probably reported a space alien but it turned out to be a Dollar Tree plastic bag blowing around.
“The post did not mention the reason for the lockdown”
Well, I guess that’s a good thing, not publicizing what happened on a military installation.
As opposed to the all clear being given before the lockdown.
Didn’t this used to be Ft. Gordon?
It was. Until, in their infinite wisdom, the American voter elected those who were and are determined to destroy the United States of America and what it stands for to represent them in Congress. And once installed, they began the process of destroying America.
Someone in maintenance may have broken a fluorescence light bulb and their just completed safety modules required a hazmat lock-down of the affected area and building, which then expanded the the full base.
It will be again.
As I understand, often when there have been terrorist attacks or such activity it is discovered there were probes, or tests beforehand. Be a good Boy Scout - “Be prepared!”
I guess the Asshats couldn’t call it a Joint base anything, so they just changed the name to the longest one they could think of.
Yep. It stated this in the article.
A few years ago, I was told by a church member who served at Fort Riley that it went into a lockdown for a couple of hours because a sensitive weapon system could not be accounted for. Turned out to be a clerical error on a report but to be cautious, no one was allowed to enter or leave the base until it was accounted for. He knew but couldn’t say what the system was.
Fort Gordon, I took Army AIT there in 1969, very nice area.
Worked in Back Hall a few years ago. BTW, they have a very nice shooting range.
“”My Dad was stationed at Ft Gordon.””
I worked with a guy in CA from Malta who was stationed at Ft. Gordon long ago. He said it was the most desolate place he’d ever been/seen in his life. I didn’t have any idea what he meant until we moved to GA - took a trip (one February) from Metro Atlanta to Savannah and passed through some of the most desolate country I’d ever seen - and that was after spending weekends for years at my husband’s parents place in the Mojave Desert, CA....THAT was beautiful compared to the desolation and swampy, vacant countryside on the trip to Savannah! Is summer any different? I have no idea but not a trip I’d care to make again!
And I KNOW - the desert has its own beauty and it really does grow on you...summer time (forget the heat if possible) and enjoy the desert in bloom....
Lol!
An on-base fatal shooting. A wife/girlfriend involved?
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