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U.S. Military Tells Recruiting Centers to Step Up Security
New precautions come in wake of attack in Chattanooga
WASHINGTON—The military has directed recruiting centers nationwide to step up security in the wake of the Chattanooga, Tenn., attacks that left four Marines and a sailor dead, officials said Monday.
Adm. Bill Gortney, head of the U.S. Northern Command, which oversees security for military facilities in the U.S., issued a directive Sunday night that calls for modest new security measures while the Defense Department considers more substantive steps to address threats to the facilities, officials said.
The security boost doesn’t authorize recruiters to carry weapons in the centers—a move that would require higher-level action. Instead, officials said they are directing hundreds of recruiting and reserve centers and ROTC facilities to increase surveillance and take basic steps such as closing blinds at the offices.
Capt. Scott Miller, spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command, declined to comment on the specifics of the directive. However, he said the steps are designed to “increase and sustain security” and “increase vigilance and safeguarding of personnel.”
The moves come as the military is exploring what steps it should take to increase security at the sites after 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, opened fire on a recruiting center in a Chattanooga strip mall and then drove to a small Navy administrative center where he killed the five service members.
Officials have yet to determine a motive for Thursday’s shooting, but it is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.
U.S. Military Tells Recruiting Centers to Step Up Security
New precautions come in wake of attack in Chattanooga
WASHINGTON—The military has directed recruiting centers nationwide to step up security in the wake of the Chattanooga, Tenn., attacks that left four Marines and a sailor dead, officials said Monday.
Adm. Bill Gortney, head of the U.S. Northern Command, which oversees security for military facilities in the U.S., issued a directive Sunday night that calls for modest new security measures while the Defense Department considers more substantive steps to address threats to the facilities, officials said.
The security boost doesn’t authorize recruiters to carry weapons in the centers—a move that would require higher-level action. Instead, officials said they are directing hundreds of recruiting and reserve centers and ROTC facilities to increase surveillance and take basic steps such as closing blinds at the offices.
Capt. Scott Miller, spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command, declined to comment on the specifics of the directive. However, he said the steps are designed to “increase and sustain security” and “increase vigilance and safeguarding of personnel.”
The moves come as the military is exploring what steps it should take to increase security at the sites after 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, opened fire on a recruiting center in a Chattanooga strip mall and then drove to a small Navy administrative center where he killed the five service members.
Officials have yet to determine a motive for Thursday’s shooting, but it is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.
