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Lot of issued -- government-issued personal weapons to the sailors and to the officers. its a naval aviation training base focused on flying skills and air crew and maintenance. so the average sailors are not armed. the only ones that are armed tipcally at pensacola are the security forces. and its a mix that you have some civilians that work in the naval air station and some enlisted sailors, masters at arms we call them, which also supplement base security. theyre trained and allowed to have a...

We have here. and obviously the number of people that have been shot here, thats a pretty high number when you look at i. about ten people, two deputies. so heroes here and were going to learn a lot more about them and now the victims. who are the victims? why was the shooter targeting these victims and who is the this victim and so this is a training base. they spoke about this was a classroom setting. >> like a small city. there are, theres homes on the base and thats something to consider. th...

Naval air station went on lockdown as they responded to reports of the active shooter. the gunman, whom u.s. auto officials identified as the saudi national open fired in a classroom at the training base which hosts the military students from around the world. >> walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie. >> county sheriff deputy responded to the scene and one shooting and killing the gunman. it was forgotten virtually, they were put to the test today. i tell you, its ...

It is considered the cradle of naval aviation. if you are interested in being are in military aviation either for the u.s. navy, marines or coast guard, if you are pursuing a career, in all likelihood the initial primary stop and training base will be here in pensacola. with regard to pearl harbor, that was two days ago. you know have two shootings on a naval base within three days of each other. at pearl harbor two civilian employees were killed. the shooter then turned the gun on himself. took...

A good point just because this muhammad sayid is a saudi national who was there training. does not mean this is a case of terror. whats going on right now to figure out who this guy is and why this may have happened and how quickly and how broad will mobilization be at this investigation. >> with pensacola being a training base, would not be entirely unusual to form military personnel or doing training there. this does change the equation of what we are talking about. how to form national -- why...

Visit the cemetery. we also have one of finest navel aviation museums here. also the national museum of aviation if is one of the best in the state, and you have public access to that facility as well. so the military personnel, this is a training base, it is a precarious situation. you have to just balance that with the security requirements of protecting the personnel on the base. >> would you say because this was early in the morning, i know it is home to the blue angels there, would it be th...

This is a regular thing that the u.s. militarys doing. so this is a very common practice by the way. pete williams. hes here with me. and our national security and pentagon reporter courty cuby joins me on the phone. pete, let me start with you. what new have we learned? >> well, hes a second lieutenant or was a second lieutenant in the saudi air force who came here for flight training. there are sort of three groups that come. very junior officers, very senior ones. he was in the middle. beyond...

Pensacola where we do joint training. part of that moa is we are a response unit to assist nas. thats what was put in place this morning. >> our security forces, they were the first responders there, and then the sheriffs department came. >> can you tell us what kind of weapon the shooter was use? >> i cannot, no. >> you stated it was in a classroom? >> its a training base. almost all our buildings are classroom buildings. it would be hard for this to happen and not be in that type of environmen...

At stake. palestinian security forces locked and loaded for a raid in the west bank city. intelligence just informed the police that a known drug dealer who could be heavily armed is on the move. this is man theyve wanted for quite some time. we arrive at an empty apartment building. the police form a perimeter and stack up and move in. if the tactics appear straight out of an american play book, thats because they are. the americans play an important role in security issues, facilities and impr...

>> palestinian security forces locked and loaded for a raid in the west bank city. intelligence just informed the police that a known drug dealer is on the move. this is a man they wanted for quite sometime. >> we arrive at an empty apartment building. the police form a perimeter, stack up and move in. if the tactics appear straight out of an american play book thats because they are. the americans play an important role in security issues, facilities, and improving our skills, the major general...