The Rock Island Arsenal will conduct a full-scale exercise (active shooter) on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The drill will begin after 8 a.m. and conclude by 4 p.m.
Alert! and Giant Voice Mass Warning Notification Systems (MWNS) will be used during this drill. All exercise messaging will begin with “exercise-exercise-exercise.”
Emergency services personnel and emergency vehicles will be responding and setting up incident command and there will be simulated small-arms gunfire during the exercise at designated locations.
Incoming and outgoing gate operations on the Rock Island Arsenal may be impacted during the actual lock-down portion of the exercise.
