Reported tornado tears through National Guard barracks

[flashl]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A possible tornado touched down late Monday in southern Mississippi, slashing through a National Guard barracks and injuring 14 guardsmen, according to a sheriff and a military spokesman.

Lt. Col. Doril Sanders, a spokesman for Camp Shelby, said severe weather hit the facility around 11:25 p.m. CT.

The barracks housed guardsmen from Mena, Arkansas, who are training at Shelby.

They were taken to Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg with injuries that aren't life-threatening, Sanders said.

CNN

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/03/04/severe.weather/?iref=mpstoryview

[Drifter]

1. Why does God hate the troops ...

:sarcasm:

This is to poke fun at the nuts who believe natural disasters are Gods way of punishing sinners.

Of course, I hope that no one is seriously injured.

Cheers
Drifter

[Ian David]

3. Article says none of the injuries are life-threatening.

However, once The V.A. gets through with them...

[Hugabear]

5. Maybe one of them was gay

Because we know that tornados and hurricanes are God's punishment for homosexuality.

:sarcasm:

[Acadia Blue]

9. Those TV preachers blamed New Orleans, so why don't they blame

wars and the army?

[Ian David]

2. What are the odds of a tornado hitting one of the 22% of National Guard barracks that isn't empty?

[BadgerKid]

4. NWS info

CAMP SHELBY FORREST MS

*** 5 INJ *** A BARRACK BUILDING WAS BADLY DAMAGED WITH 5 KNOWN INJURIES. IT WAS PARTIALLY COLLAPSED. TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN THIS AREA AS WELL. POSSIB (JAN)


http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080303_rpts.html

[thecrow]

6. I have to get off of DU today and soon

I read the word "barracks" as if it was "Barak's"...

I'll come back tomorrow :)

Meanwhile I hope everything is all right for these people in Obamas...
Darn there I go again.

[NOLALady]

7. Everything's going to be all right.

Drink some coffee and relax. :D

[14thColony]

8. Camp Shelby's a pre-Iraq/Afganistan training base

The Air Force used to send active-duty people through there for two months of infantry/combat skills training before going to Iraq or Afghanistan, if they were going to be attached to the Army, which is why I went through there April-June 2006 before my year in Afghanistan. It's a pretty big base really, with new barracks and facilities being built like mad when I was there. So a tornado would have plenty to hit. God may or may not hate Camp Shelby, but I sure do.

[ck4829]

10. Does this mean that God has something against the National Guard?