Posted on Aug 28, 2021
New details on Fort Jackson trainee’s bus hijacking and how basic has changed there
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"While that process unfolded, the Army conducted an AR 15-6 investigation of its own to determine how Collazo made off with his weapon and to provide recommendations on how to prevent similar — if not worse — incidents from occurring in the future."
New details on Fort Jackson trainee’s bus hijacking and how basic has changed there
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We didn't even touch a weapon without oversight when I was at Ft Jackson in 1980.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
In 2004, we only got our weapons when we had to go do BRM. I heard; however, that at some point they started to have them carry their weapons with them all the time to get used to it because when you're in combat/deployed, you're going to have that on you 24/7. Obviously they're carrying them unloaded with no ammo. I don't know exactly when that started.
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It seems the drill sergeants chased after him when he took off running sometime after PT that day. He "scrambled" over a fence with his weapon and got to I77. It seems he's the only trainee there to have jumped the fence with a weapon in 20 years. (Did it happen before that at some time?)It says the fence at 'training-focused' installations like Jackson is lower than those at installations with sensitive equipment because their primary purpose to keep people out, not in.
So it's not the primary purpose to keep people there during basic? I don't know I still feel bad for the little kids on that bus he hijacked because they probably had no clue what the hell was going on and didn't know he didn't have a loaded weapon. But for someone to run away from Fort Jackson...really? Fort Jackson? Or basic at all. It's really not THAT bad.
So it's not the primary purpose to keep people there during basic? I don't know I still feel bad for the little kids on that bus he hijacked because they probably had no clue what the hell was going on and didn't know he didn't have a loaded weapon. But for someone to run away from Fort Jackson...really? Fort Jackson? Or basic at all. It's really not THAT bad.
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SPC Cathy Goessman
We had people trying to take off from reception. I guess it didn't hit them that they had joined the Army until they actually showed up. Made no sense to me. The DS there were just baby sitters shuffling you from one thing to the next.
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