Fort Stewart Senior Commander Army Brig. Gen. John Lubas held a press briefing on Thursday, where he spoke about the timeline for the shooting on the base.
00:00General Lucas, can you give us a general sense of how long this all happened from that first shot fired to when your brave soldiers were able to tackle the gunman?
00:08I can. It was an incredibly fast response, and I do attribute this to the training that this installation has done and the teams here have done.
00:16So at approximately 1056, the incident was reported, and that went out over sort of an all-calls in it.
00:22That triggered a lot of responses. That triggered our installation, emergency medical services, our police, our fire, our emergency medical services to respond.
00:31But it's also monitored by the local community, and then we requested assistance.
00:36At 1104, we locked down initial lockdowns and installation, so that was pretty quick.
00:41That wasn't me. That was the director of DDS and the garrison commanders that immediately made that right call and that decision.
00:48At about 1109, emergency personnel were dispatched to treat the wounded.
00:54At 1135, the shooter was out on land by the soldiers in the armed force.
00:58Several behind us and several in the crowd that we recognized earlier.
01:03So really what that means, we had about 13 minutes after that first report, we already had people, ambulances, fire, fish and game.
01:14Military police responded and were on the scene.
01:16And then we had local support from the amazing community here.
01:21We had the first SWAT team arrive from off post within 20 minutes on site, which is truly incredible.
01:26So we're incredibly grateful for the support from the community.
01:29I'm incredible for our leadership that trained our soldiers to react this way.
01:34And as the Secretary of State said, we're incredibly proud of the soldiers themselves.
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