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Iowa Guard Reviewing Security After Chattanooga Shooting

Iowa Guard Reviewing Security After Chattanooga Shooting

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The adjutant general of the Iowa National National Guard, Timothy Orr, will review the security at all guard facilities in Iowa after last week’s shooting rampage in Chattanooga, Tennessee that left four marines and one sailor dead.  In some states, governors, have ordered that guard members should be armed at recruiting stations and other facilities.  Governor Terry Branstad’s spokesman, Jimmy Centers, says Branstad has asked the top leader in the guard to conduct the review of Iowa’s military facilities.

Centers won’t predict whether the review will lead to more armed personnel at recruiting stations.

Centers says the soldiers deserve to have a work environment that is safe and secure.  Branstad will meet Thursday in Washing with the Council of Governors, which advises federal officials on military matters.  Centers says the governor will urge a review of security at military installations nationwide.

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