LISTEN: Trucker at Fort Stewart during shooting says he thought “we were at war” for about half an hour

A truck driver relayed his experience at Fort Stewart during a recent shooting at the Georgia Army base in an interview with a news outlet. 

The Wednesday morning, August 6th shooting happened at the Fort Stewart Army base in Georgia. Five soldiers were shot before other soldiers subdued the shooter. All five soldiers survived the attack. 

Truck driver Ron Peavey was finishing up a delivery at the base when it went into lockdown. He says that he didn’t know what was going on until the lockdown was over, but that it was a “really scary and alarming” period of time. 

Peavey said he was trying to exit the base to head to Atlanta when they stopped him at the gate without much explanation, he explained to News Nation Now.

“The guards were agitated at the gate – they were unsettled,” Peavy said. 

“I initially thought, probably for the first half hour almost, that we were at war. It was reminiscent of 9/11. Everything was shut down.”

“They finally stopped traffic so I could get turned around. When I got out of my vehicle to see why I couldn’t go straight, which is the only thing I really could have done, they yelled at me to get back in the truck and told me to turn around.”

“It was like a ghost town,” he added. 

Watch and listen to the interview below.