Chattanooga shooting leads to review of security at recruitment centers

The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center said it has seen nothing so far to connect Abdulazeez to any terrorist organization, but intelligence officials are monitoring the investigation closely.

The Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center Chattanooga sits between the highway and a pathway that runs through Tennessee RiverPark, a popular park at a bend in the Tennessee River northeast of downtown Chattanooga.

(AP Photo/Mark Zaleski) Bill Lettmkuhl kneels by a makeshift memorial in front of near the Armed Forces Career Center on Friday, July 17, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Jebrell Long says he’s not afraid to visit a military recruiting center because a shooting can happen anywhere. Is there enough security?

“Recruiting offices have been kind of on the leading edge of targets simply because they are both ubiquitous and they’re vulnerable”, said Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation. But the gun-free recruiting center is certainly an ad for a modern military in which soldiers aren’t allowed to defend themselves against Muslim terrorism.

Sedalia Marine Recruiter Sgt. Berke said there’s “an officer down” at a military reserve center. Kenneth Trotter Jr., of Kansas City. Hunter has served in the Marine Corps and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

A total of 4 marines were killed in the Chattanooga attacks and 3 were injured. Names of these Marines will be released upon notification of the next of kin.

There weren’t any signs late Friday morning of security changes outside or within the recruiting offices on Church Street in New Haven or the courthouses near the Green.

Sedalia Police Department Cmdr.

“We’re apprehensive”, Hutcheson said. They have annual training on how to react to an active shooter incident.

“We do have regular active shooter training”.

A notice went out Thursday to Army locations reminding them of protection measures. “Unfortunately we have to train for those things in our country and city, but times have changed and we need to be proactive rather than reactive”.

“I think it adds more danger to the situation, honestly”, Amanda Everett of Washington, D.C. said. “Pay attention to what’s going on around you”.

Officers with the NYPD anti-terrorism unit guard a military recruiting station in Times Square, Friday in New York.

The ban is largely due to legal issues, such as the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement. The Pentagon will want to figure out exactly what happened and weigh whether arming recruiters would actually have made a difference in this situation, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno told Pentagon reporters Friday.

The fatal attack on two Tennessee military facilities has raised fears that terrorist attacks on so-called “soft-targets” will continue, and has some calling for arming military personnel at recruiting centers.

While Ward isn’t involved with military recruitment, he did say that the placement of recruiting offices in strip malls or other highly public places may become a topic of discussion in the near future. Brandy Solis, 31, said he and his fellow recruiters would prefer to be armed at their office, which is in a shopping plaza near a bakery, noodle restaurant and barber shop. “And I’m pretty sure it’s here to stay”.

“There’s been several (shootings at recruiting offices) in the last four or five years”.