Shooter at US Navy base captured

A former National Guard military reserve recruiter opened fire Thursday at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed by other soldiers, officials said.

Millington Police Chief Rita Stanback said the shooter was apprehended by other National Guard members. She said two National Guard members were shot, one in the foot and one in the leg.

"I'm sure there could have been more injury if they hadn't taken him into custody," Stanback said.

The injured soldiers were taken to a hospital. Stanback said at a news conference that their conditions were not immediately known, though the Navy said on its official Twitter account that neither had life-threatening injuries.

The shooter was a recruiter who had been relieved of duty, a law enforcement official briefed on the developments said. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Stanback said the shooting happened inside an armory building just outside Naval Support Activity Mid-South. There are more than 7,500 military, civilian and contract personnel working on the base, according to its official website.

The facility is home to human resources operations and serves as headquarters for the Navy Personnel Command, the Navy Recruiting Command, the Navy Manpower Analysis Center and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center.

The Navy said the base was briefly placed on lockdown as a precaution, though the lockdown was lifted in the afternoon.

Thursday's incident was the sixth shooting at a domestic U.S. military facility within the last year.

Al Jazeera and The Associated Press