Posted on Sep 29, 2021
Once again, military installation active-shooter exercise creates real-world havoc
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The confusion happened, said Jones, even though Fort Meade public affairs personnel had “communicated this exercise for the past two weeks on multiple mediums including several messages to each organization’s Public Affairs and operation offices; multiple social media posts; at least one installation town hall, and a media advisory” on Sept. 22.
“Even with all of that effort, a major miscommunication occurred,” said Jones. “The installation responded as soon as it was brought to our attention, but not before it spread unnecessary concern in the community. We will absolutely take the lessons learned yesterday to help us be better in future exercises, and more importantly, if a real-world incident ever occurs.”
Adding to the confusion, said Jones, was that the training exercise was posted on the installation Facebook page as if it were unfolding in real time (albeit with the word “exercise” repeated three times on the top of each post).
“Even with all of that effort, a major miscommunication occurred,” said Jones. “The installation responded as soon as it was brought to our attention, but not before it spread unnecessary concern in the community. We will absolutely take the lessons learned yesterday to help us be better in future exercises, and more importantly, if a real-world incident ever occurs.”
Adding to the confusion, said Jones, was that the training exercise was posted on the installation Facebook page as if it were unfolding in real time (albeit with the word “exercise” repeated three times on the top of each post).
Once again, military installation active-shooter exercise creates real-world havoc
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My bad - I copied and pasted the part about the confusion from a Ft Meade exercise last week. This was at Tyndall AF base. Meade had an incident where people thought an active shooter drill was a real active shooter too. Even though the Meade one they repeatedly pushed out that a training exercise was happening and that the updates they had said "exercise" repeatedly...I don't know if Tyndall did that too.
"For the second time in less than a week, an active-shooter drill on a military installation led to concerns outside the gates that a tragedy was unfolding.
Tuesday morning, a 911 call about an active shooter sent police and first responders to Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida’s Panhandle, but it turned out the caller did not realize officials were conducting an active shooter training exercise, the base said in a Facebook post."
"For the second time in less than a week, an active-shooter drill on a military installation led to concerns outside the gates that a tragedy was unfolding.
Tuesday morning, a 911 call about an active shooter sent police and first responders to Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida’s Panhandle, but it turned out the caller did not realize officials were conducting an active shooter training exercise, the base said in a Facebook post."
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