Soldiers near a National Guard training facility in Perry County, Mississippi, reported sounds of gunshot two days in a row this week, according to military officials.
The Washington Post reported that soldiers at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center heard shots in a nearby wooded area Monday morning and again the next day.
The soldiers who reported sounds of gunshot Tuesday at 8 a.m. were in the same area as those who made similar reports Monday at about 11:45 a.m. The military installation extends over 134,000 acres of land.
According to spokesman for the Mississippi Military Department Lt. Col. Christian Patterson, no individuals were injured in either incident. He insisted that the facility, at which approximately 4,600 soldiers are currently training, remains secure.
The description of the individual responsible for the second shooting was the same as that of the first: a white man in a red pickup truck. According to the Clarion-Ledger, a suspect in the crime had been detained as of Wednesday morning.
Perry County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith said that it was unclear whether soldiers were the target of the shots.
The twin reports of shots near the National Guard training facility come just weeks after a gunman shot and killed four Marines and a sailor during an attack on two Chattanooga, Tennessee, military facilities.
In the wake of the Chattanooga shootings, multiple lawmakers and veterans have called for military personnel like recruiters to be armed for protection. In a memo last week, Defense Secretary Ash Carter committed to allowing more troops to be armed while stateside and increasing security measures at military facilities.
"This incident and the ongoing threat underscore the need for DoD to revise its force protection and security policies, programs, and procedures, particularly for off-installation DoD facilities," Carter wrote in the document.