Gulfport Seabee Base using shipping containers to shield base housing from gunfire

[1srelluc]

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - If you drive down Commission Road on the south side of the Seabee Base in Gulfport, you’ll see a wall of huge shipping containers lining the roadway. They were set up in an effort to protect service members and base residents from gun violence outside the gates.

The containers were brought in after an incident back in October when gunfire broke out at an apartment complex across the street from the base.

“There was some shootings over here at the William Bell Apartment complex and one of the bullets, or several bullets, struck one of the houses over there,” Gulfport Councilman Kenneth “Truck” Casey explained. “Those are the measures that the Seabee Base came up with by putting those containers over there to block the stray bullets.”

Gulfport Seabee Base using shipping containers to shield base housing from gunfire

If you drive down Commission Road on the south side of the Seabee Base in Gulfport, you’ll see a wall of huge shipping containers lining the roadway.

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Those that travel a lot internationally told me they looked for concertina wire. If there was concertina wire they knew they were in a shitty part of a country.

Sometimes I wonder if we'll reach South Africa levels of Third Worldliness or if it will get better before that happens?

 

[odanny]

Sometimes I wonder if we'll reach South Africa levels of Third Worldliness

Already there. Also in Mississippi.

They don't even fix roads in Jackson, and of course there is no potable water.

 

[1srelluc]

Already there. Also in Mississippi.

They don't even fix roads in Jackson, and of course there is no potable water.

Dem run so no surprise there.

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[Concerned American]

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - If you drive down Commission Road on the south side of the Seabee Base in Gulfport, you’ll see a wall of huge shipping containers lining the roadway. They were set up in an effort to protect service members and base residents from gun violence outside the gates.

The containers were brought in after an incident back in October when gunfire broke out at an apartment complex across the street from the base.

“There was some shootings over here at the William Bell Apartment complex and one of the bullets, or several bullets, struck one of the houses over there,” Gulfport Councilman Kenneth “Truck” Casey explained. “Those are the measures that the Seabee Base came up with by putting those containers over there to block the stray bullets.”

Gulfport Seabee Base using shipping containers to shield base housing from gunfire

If you drive down Commission Road on the south side of the Seabee Base in Gulfport, you’ll see a wall of huge shipping containers lining the roadway.

www.wlox.com

Those that travel a lot internationally told me they looked for concertina wire. If there was concertina wire they knew they were in a shitty part of a country.

Sometimes I wonder if we'll reach South Africa levels of Third Worldliness or if it will get better before that happens?

Reminds me of the wall in Belfast.

 

[odanny]

Dem run so no surprise there.

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Red state shithole.

And the state capital.

 

[Mushroom]

Not much of a surprise. They built a cement wall on the South Side of UTEP because bullets from the drug cartel battles in Mexico kept landing on the campus.

 

[Couchpotato]

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - If you drive down Commission Road on the south side of the Seabee Base in Gulfport, you’ll see a wall of huge shipping containers lining the roadway. They were set up in an effort to protect service members and base residents from gun violence outside the gates.

The containers were brought in after an incident back in October when gunfire broke out at an apartment complex across the street from the base.

“There was some shootings over here at the William Bell Apartment complex and one of the bullets, or several bullets, struck one of the houses over there,” Gulfport Councilman Kenneth “Truck” Casey explained. “Those are the measures that the Seabee Base came up with by putting those containers over there to block the stray bullets.”

Gulfport Seabee Base using shipping containers to shield base housing from gunfire

If you drive down Commission Road on the south side of the Seabee Base in Gulfport, you’ll see a wall of huge shipping containers lining the roadway.

www.wlox.com

Those that travel a lot internationally told me they looked for concertina wire. If there was concertina wire they knew they were in a shitty part of a country.

Sometimes I wonder if we'll reach South Africa levels of Third Worldliness or if it will get better before that happens?

Military bases have concertina wire on top of fences all over the country. It's not an uncommon occurrence.