The security measures have been planned “for quite some time,” Mayer said. “But those measures aren’t driven by any particular event other than doing what’s appropriate to support the Air Force Marathon.”
In a statement this week, Wright-Patterson spokesman John E. Klemack said base security works “hand-in-hand with local community police departments” on a “variety of security protocols” for the event.
The base security level was at Alpha, the lowest level, on Thursday, according to spokeswoman Laura McGowan.
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