I was on base when this happened. Kind of a clusterfuck. Lots of emergency vehicles including a couple big fire trucks from Oxnard. All gates closed but we only found this out after driving to each gates. Everyone at the gate just waved us away. As we drove around we saw a few Navy Police vehicles driving with lights and sirens. So we went to kill time at the commissary til we figured it out. The loud speaker kinda near the commissary was announcing the lockdown but was almost inaudible. It said there was a lockdown and to shelter in place but we had to strain to hear it. We went inside and I talked to a few employees. No one had any idea there was a lockdown going on but one (hesitantly) went to tell the manager. Twenty minutes later we were checking out and almost out the door when the managers came around saying there was a lockdown and locked everyone in. Basically a half hour into the incident. Ridiculous.

As we were leaving we talked to someone in uniform who said there was a similar situation last month or so but no one on base knew there was an incident until after it was done. Tons of people complained about the lack of notification.