Not everyone on the base knew yesterday's exercise was a drill. One soldier called from off the base and reported seeing long guns on the base. That report sparked the base to go from an drill into a real world situation until they could determine there was no active threat .

The mainstream media then jumped on the story that there was an active shooter on the base, and before noon social media was flooded with messages about another mass shooting.

This is a perfect example of how a military drill can be sold as the real deal unknowingly by the media and how crisis actors can then be used to sell the narrative. During the very real looking crisis drill that took place earlier this year in February in the U.K., 1,000 crisis actors participated in Europe's largest emergency drill in history . The drill even included realistic props, make up and a stone block falling into the London tube station.