http://www.timesrepublican.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=7046 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS February 23, 2007 DES MOINES -- A serious security breach that left an armory at Camp Dodge unlocked overnight with about 700 combat weapons inside is being investigated, Iowa Army National Guard officials said . None of the weapons were missing from the Johnston military base, but investigators said that the incident is considered serious enough to be reported to the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Va. ?We are conducting an internal investigation about our procedures and we are also doing a review of our alarm system,? said Brig. Gen. Mark Zirkelbach, the Iowa National Guards deputy adjutant. He said the Guard knows a break-in didnt occur because a soldier who was responsible for locking the arms room vault has admitted he left the room unsecured. Iowa Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Gregory Hapgood Jr. said that he had never heard of such a serious security breach happening at Camp Dodge. ?This is extraordinarily rare...This is not something that you ever want to have happen a second time,? Hapgood said. Zirkelbach said some of the weapons in the unlocked building had been used by an Iowa unit that had just returned home from a deployment. Copyright 2007 - The Times-Republican ______________________________________ Subscribe to the InfoSec News RSS Feed http://www.infosecnews.org/isn.rss
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