4 Marines killed in military attacks in Tenn.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire at two military facilities a few miles apart in Chattanooga on Thursday, killing at least four Marines, officials said. The gunman was also killed.

U.S. Attorney Bill Killian said officials were treating the attacks as an act of "domestic terrorism," though FBI agent Ed Reinhold said authorities were still investigating a motive. A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity identified the gunman as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Hixton, Tennessee, and said he was believed to have been born in Kuwait, though it was unclear whether he was a U.S. or Kuwaiti citizen.

"Lives have been lost from some faithful people who have been serving our country, and I think I join all Tennesseans in being both sickened and saddened by this," Gov. Bill Haslam said. The attacks took places minutes apart, with the gunman stopping his car and opening fire first at a military recruiting center for all five branches of the military, then apparently driving to a Navy-Marine training center 7 miles away. The attacks were over within a half-hour.

The Marine Corps said four Marines were killed, and a fifth Marine was wounded in the leg, treated at a hospital and released. Also, a police officer was shot in the ankle, Mayor Andy Berke said. Authorities gave no details on how the gunman was killed.

The shootings began at the recruiting center on Old Lee Highway, where a shot rang out around 10:30 or 10:45 a.m., followed a few seconds later by more fire, said Sgt. 1st Class Robert Dodge, the leader for Army recruiting at the center.

He and his comrades got on the ground and barricaded themselves in a safe place. Dodge estimated there were 30 to 50 shots fired. Doors and glass were damaged at the neighboring Air Force, Navy and Marine offices, he said.

Law enforcement officials told recruiters that the gunman was in a car, stopped in front of the facility, shot at the building and drove off, said Brian Lepley, a spokesman with the U.S. Army Recruiting Command in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

The recruiting center sits in a short strip between a cellphone business and an Italian restaurant with no apparent additional security. Within minutes of that attack, the gunman opened fire at the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center Chattanooga. All of the dead were killed there.

The center is in a light industrial area that includes a Coca-Cola bottling plant. The two entrances to the fenced facility have unmanned gates and concrete barriers that require approaching cars to slow down to drive around them.

Marilyn Hutcheson, who works at Binswanger Glass across the street, said she heard a barrage of gunfire around 11 a.m. "I couldn't even begin to tell you how many," she said. "It was rapid-fire, like pow-pow-pow-pow-pow, so quickly. The next thing I knew, there were police cars coming from every direction."

She ran inside, and she and other employees and a customer waited it out with the doors locked. The gunfire continued with occasional bursts for what she estimated was 20 minutes. Bomb squads, SWAT teams and other local, state and federal authorities rushed to the scene.

"If it was a grievance or terroristic related, we just don't know," she said.

A police officer investigates outside the Armed Forces Career Center after a gunman opened fire on the building Thursday, July 16, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Authorities say there were multiple casualties including the gunman.

He must have been wearing a confederate flag t-shirt..

also known as Bubba Akbar. He will have to be replaced by more immigrant terrorist though. Maybe a couple dozen Pakistani terrorist should do it.

We need as many bearded Mahmood Cletus Abdulazizmustafafafafafafa dirka dirka's as we can let sneak across the border..

Hey, let's release a few thousand convicts from our own prisons while were at it.

Maybe they need to make the GUN FREE ZONE signs a little larger and in multiple languages so our friendly immigrant brothers can better read them..

I love how they immediately classify them as a "gunman" or "terrorist" or "domestic terrorist" in the media.

Can't call him nuts, or a murderer, or killer, or alleged murderer/killer, or perpetrator (of violence).

Nope, gotta build up that "gun" and "terrorist" association right quick in order to manipulate people into more fear of guns.

And why isn't it "gunpersyn" in this pc world?

Nope, gotta build that "gun" and "terrorist" and "man" association with what is bad and evil.

Kool-aid for the sheeple.

you know when you put that uniform on that you are going to be a target most everywhere in the world.. you except that. But you do not expect it in your own back yard.

this is a God damn shame.

Rest in peace to the fallen. Prayers for the families and the wounded.

I hear ya devildog...

My thoughts are so close to what you have written... My prayers for the families they have left behind... So very sad...

Build an association? If an assailant has a firearm and they are seen, as in not firing a low number of high caliber high velocity rounds, that person is called a gunman or a shooter. Calling them a killer or murderer before the facts are known is usually frowned upon by law enforcement and military. I sincerely doubt the witnesses stopped the man running around firing the gun rapidly at random targets what his name was. If caught in the act which this acehole was it's pretty not smart to call him a 'suspect' or 'perpetrator'. Deductive reasoning that the distance between the crime scenes and the FACT that they are both military TARGETS, and the reported rapid rate of fire rules out that the man running around shooting the gun rapidly at random targets knew who he was shooting at classifies this as an act of terrorism. The FACT that this happened on U.S. soil makes this an act of domestic terrorism carried out by one man with a gun running around shooting at random people who just so happened to be in his line of fire. Gunman, terrorist, coward, idiot. Calling the coward a murderer before anyone is pronounced dead validates his cause, since he was too much of a coward to see if he succeeded in what he set out to do.
Feel free to opt out of 'drinking the Koolaid' , but while you're building associations be sure to relay that message to the Marines, U.S. Army recruiters, their families and the Chattanooga Police Department.

Perhaps our military will stop being a gun free zone!

No one would have believed this could exist right after WWII.

I knew what they meant by gun free zone, unofficial gun free. I feel what you're saying too but a lot of people are going to have to start 'drinking the Koolaid' and believing what is taking shape in the world of TODAY.
How many times is it going to take a Flight MH 370, Charlie Hebdo, the Dubai mall stabbings, the knife wielding failure in Boston, the Moroccan beach massacre, te hundreds if not thousands of teens baited into 'marriage' to isil fighters, the attack in Texas. Yes, TEXAS. They don't wear uniforms and march in formation and wait for the order to fire. There was a WHITE American father who turned his own son into the FBI who was planning an attack on fellow students and a pressure cooker bombing.

Remember zokhar tsarneyev, Boston marathon bomber?
They aren't the axis my grandfather fought. They don't have height weight, sex, race, or age limitations. They don't give a damn about borders. They operate wherever anyone is willing to take the fight with any weapon.
Got a WHITE American kid with a pressure cooker, we'll take him. Got a black Muslim with a knife, we'll take him. Got a Moor with an AK on a public resort beach, we'll take him. This is what is going on here, in Brussels, France, Morocco, Syria, Iraq, Dubai, I'm sure there are more and this is a pseudo-religious pseudo-political operative in its infancy.
Sip your denial cocktail slowly, because this is BIG, vast, chamelonesque, flexible, and real. Real people are dying on friendly soil.

Another thing to add to Barry's legacy. If he would allow our TRAINED military men and women carry while in the states this could have been prevented or a better outcome but no he has to vilify the men and women who put it on the line and know there's a chance they wont come home from overseas and should NEVER have that fear here.

FU Barry!

Wouldn't be an issue if Donald Trump was President.

Amen, and to think this $hit could possibly be prevented if our President had a fu^7ing spine and wasn't a son of a mother f*****g bi**h. I am sorry but I get REALLY pissed when our heroes die and get even MORE PISSED when it is f*****g preventable.

Buubba-Boy Clinton!
Was decided for Military Installations to be Gunfree under his Administration with active Participation by him!

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2013/09/17/when-military-gun-free/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/end-clinton-era-military-base-gun-ban/

http://drhurd.com/gun-free-zones-on-military-bases-really-work-well-dont-they/

"Gun Free Zones" on Military Bases: Real Effective, Right?

After gunman Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a Muslim immigrant from Kuwait, allegedly shot and killed four Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, former NYPD detective Harry Houck said the military's "gun-free zone" mindset has to change.

Speaking to CNN Newsroom, Houck said,I'm a Marine. And this really is hitting me a little harder here than normal that [these Marines] weren't able to protect themselves at the time this occurred.

We need people that are armed, he added. [breitbart.com and CNN.com 7/16/15]

Why is this even a question?

"The Tennessean" reports that Abdulazeez pulled in front of a recruiting location, shared by various military branches, and shot holes through the doors and glass [of] the Air Force, Navy and Marine offices. He allegedly did this while sitting in his car.

The advocates of gun-free zones for military bases have made their point. Their point was that if military bases can forbid guns, so can everyone else in society. Their premise was: Guns kill people; not people. Get rid of the guns, and we'll be fine.

(read on at the link)