UPDATED: June 30, 2016, 10:40 AM ET
Joint Base Andrews, the Maryland home of Air Force One, was put on lockdown Thursday morning after a mistaken report of an “active shooter” during a scheduled security drill, NBC News reported.
A person at the Malcolm Grow Medical Facility who was unaware of the drill saw base personnel carrying long guns and phoned in the report to law enforcement, NBC’s Pete Williams reported, triggering the base’s active shooter protocol.
An “all clear” came from the base’s Twitter account at about 10:40 a.m.
Base personnel were instructed to shelter in place and treated the report as a “real-world active shooter situation” due to its serious nature.
The base was scheduled to conduct an active shooting drill before reports of a “real-world active shooter situation” came in around 9 a.m., the base said on Twitter.
Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson was made aware of the situation as he testified before a Senate panel and was prepared to leave if need be.
Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to fly out of the base en route to Ohio but was diverted over the incident.
And this is how Trump wins the election. By getting American’s so afraid that the vote for the person that promises death, destruction, torture, and the idea that we should just nuke the whole Middle East.
I’m sorry but how does this affect Trump’s chances. Gun incidents have been going on for decades.
Well stated. And this probably has nothing to do with radical Muslims, probably has to do with the mental health of the shooter, as is the case about 99 times out of 100.
False alarm, apparently. Andrews is just going through a drill, and someone freaked out that didn’t know that and called the media saying there was a shooter.
Any, any attack on a military base will be seen and reported as terrorism by a large segment of the press. True or not, it plays directly to Trump’s spittle laced fact free rhetoric. How much has the pressed talking about Hillary’s proposed rational plan to deal with ISIS and how much have they covered Trump’s ban them all/kill them all sound bites?
People make their worst decisions with they are afraid.
Edit: Relieved to see this was a false alarm, but even false alarms ratchet up American anxiety.