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The Georgia fort's acting garrison commander ordered the military academy for at-risk teens shut down and barred every cadet from the fort for a year after a riot broke out involving 70 students last year.
A teen military academy in Augusta was shut down after a series of violent episodes culminated in an Oct. 13 brawl among 70 teenagers. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found leaders of
ATLANTA (AP) — A teen military academy in Augusta was shut down after a series of violent episodes culminated in an Oct. 13 brawl among 70 teenagers. Leaders of the Georgia National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy at Fort Gordon rushed to meet a new enrollment quota and didn't properly screen recruits for behavioral and mental health problems, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
A brawl broke out at Fort Gordon in Augusta last fall, when about 70 teenage recruits of the Georgia National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy slugged it out.
An investigation uncovered leadership failures and mismanagement by state officials who oversaw a program plagued by a history of violent episodes, of which the October melees were the largest.