New Report Suggests Increase In Military Gang Activity

A 2007 FBI report was part of an internal memo, according to the FBI and was not supposed to be released to the public.

The report released to KFOX by CNN said military gang activity is increasing and it could pose a threat to local law enforcement and national security.

El Paso Police Department's gang expert is not surprised by this.

"It's something that we are monitoring and if it is something that we can identify and we can say for sure is occurring than at that time we will address it," said Sgt. Reggie Moton, El Paso Police Gang Investigations.

Fort Bliss officials believe the report does not pertain to Fort Bliss stating,

"There is no evidence that we have any gang activity to give us concern at this time."

"You have racist graffiti, gang graffiti in Baghdad on on military install, guys wearing gang clothes to clubs, but you don't have a problem with gang members in the military? Quite interesting," said T.J. Leyden, Marine/Former Skinhead.

Leyden, was a recruiter for a white supremacist, anti -government group who joined the Marines and believes it trained him to be more lethal.

"Give me 50 caliber rifle, I can take down a 747 tomorrow -- over any major city in the us," Leydon said.

"In dealing with deadly force situations we are trained to deal with that so whether it is in Iraq the training that they have, we use the training that is here," Moton said.

Soldiers from Fort Bliss told KFOX they've never seen gang activity.

One soldier who's been in the military for 16-years said, "I have never seen anything gang-related and I don't know what this (FBI) report is referring to," said an anonymous soldier.

Another soldier claims the report is "overblown and was released solely to make the military look bad," said an anonymous soldier.