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All gates at Fort Jackson will be closed during a portion of the training, and there will be increased random vehicle searches, officials tweeted. There will also be restricted movement in all of Fort Jackson’s buildings and facilities during the exercise.
Leaders across post demonstrated the time-honored Army tradition of serving Thanksgiving meals to Soldiers Nov. 24-25.
Email The hijacker forced his way onto the school bus with a rifle and commands to “Get out of town, now!” It was “one of the scariest” scenarios possible, law enforcement said later – 18 children and their driver, at the whims of a man with a gun earlier this month. But the bus driver says the gunman was no match for the queries of kindergartners. The man moved all the students up front of the bus headed for an elementary school in Columbia, S.C., driver Kenneth Corbin told “Good Morning America” this week. The gunman seemed intent on reaching the next town, at least 15 miles a...
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No guns for Fort Jackson trainees after school bus hijacking 2 hours ago Fort Jackson commander Brig. Gen. Milford Beagle speaks to reporters May 6, 2021, in Columbia, S.C., following the school bus hijacking. (Stephen Fastenau/The Post And Courier via AP) The Army’s largest basic training post paused weapons immersion training after one trainee escaped May 6 and hijacked a school bus with an unloaded M4 carbine, officials at Fort Jackson, in South Carolina, said Thursday evening. The pause “means simply that weapons are kept in the arms room unless they are needed for a specific tr...
Fort Jackson pauses weapons immersion training, officials say Fort Jackson have paused its weapons immersion training while we continue investigating. By WIS News 10 Staff | May 13, 2021 at 3:32 PM EDT - Updated May 14 at 7:13 AM FORT JACKSON, S.C. (WIS) - Fort Jackson has paused its weapons immersion training, officials say. The pause is in response to last week’s school bus hijacking in Richland County. A statement Fort Jackson officials released on Thursday states: “We have paused our weapons immersion training while we continue investigating. Although we knew there was no ammun...