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Lockdown! Did Terrorists Mistake City For Major Submarine Base? Man Walked On Shool Property With Gun
A frightening situation in Groton, New York, a town, 6000 which was named after a city in Connecticut. Groton, Connecticut has been a naval base for more than a hundred years and is a major submarine base.
Was this a terrorist doing a dry run on the wrong city?
As homeport to fifteen attack submarines and neighbor to a major submarine construction yard, General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat Corporation, all Officer and Enlisted submariners with the exception of nuclear trained Electronics Technicians (ETs), Electrician’s Mates (EMs), and Machinist Mates (MMs), will be stationed at Groton for training, on board an attack submarine or with a pre-commissioning crew for a new submarine. Enlisted sailors attending sub school will first go through Basic Enlisted Sub School (BESS), an 8 week program that teaches the rigors of undersea life. BESS includes training in shoring, patching leaks and ruptured pipes, firefighting, and boat handling techniques. After BESS, sailors will either go to a boat or to follow-on schools. Schools include BMS, AUXPAC, ATT, TCNO, or an A school, depending on their rating. The A Schools housed at NAVSUBASE NLON are SECF, SCERF, AUXPAC, TM “A” MOREHERE
The gunman escaped and has not been apprehended.
Groton Elementary School went into lockdown Tuesday morning. Officials say around 10:15 a.m., a man was seen walking on a sidewalk on the schools property with a handgun. The principal called police and the school followed lockdown procedure.
Police know the identification of the suspect, according to the school’s superintendent, but have not been able to locate him. MOREHERE
was this a lone nut, or a man with a plan?
Most likely a Judeo-Islamist Obot supporter.
howd that run hide or fight method go??
I bet parents over there wish the staff had guns now, if he escaped, who is to say he wont come back?? Come on now, people stop being stupid.
Groton, NY is pretty far away from Groton, Connecticut where the Submarine base is and the two towns have absolutely nothing in common, except for the name. If anyone did do something so stupid as to mistake Groton, NY for Groton, CT -then they are far too dumb to be any kind of serious threat. Sure, Connecticut is practically the New York’s backyard, but that is New York as in the city. Groton, NY is way upstate landlocked, while Groton, CT is on the other side of Connecticut close to Rhode Island. So while Connecticut borders New York and both states are part of the “tri-state area”, the two towns are about as far away as they could possibly be within the two states.
Had to go back and find this story in light of the Washington Navy Yard stuff ongoing today. This should go back tot he front page.