{"id":249259,"date":"2026-04-03T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:14:10","slug":"naval-weapons-station-seal-beach-to-take-part-in-april-security-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249259\/","title":{"rendered":"Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach to take part in April security exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260310-N-MQ132-1042w.jpg\" data-caption=\"Seen here is an image from a past security exercise at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"436\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260310-N-MQ132-1042w.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"260310-N-MQ132-1042w\"\/><\/a>Seen here is an image from a past security exercise at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents may hear and see an increase in law enforcement activities at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station throughout the month of April as base personnel take part in a series of security exercises.<\/p>\n<p>On April 7 and 9 waterborne security boat drills are scheduled to take place in Anaheim Bay. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The drills may include the use of role players and blank machine gun fire, which can sound like actual gunshots from a distance.\u00a0 Civilian boat traffic through Anaheim Bay is unlikely to be affected. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On April 14 and 28 land-based security exercises are planned.\u00a0 These drills may cause increased traffic, delays in base access, and temporary gate closures. The station\u2019s \u201cGiant Voice\u201d mass notification loudspeaker and alarm system may also be used. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exercises are not in response to any specific threat, but are part of regularly scheduled training activities developed to enhance and maintain the readiness of Navy security teams.<\/p>\n<p>Live updates will be posted on the station\u2019s Facebook page as needed throughout the month (search under \u201cNaval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Detachment Fallbrook, Detachment Norco\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalinaexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OCCN-122018_300x250.gif\"\/><\/a>        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seen here is an image from a past security exercise at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. Local residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-249259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}