Marines didn’t give any prior warning before firing more than two dozen artillery rounds over a busy freeway in a rehearsal for last weekend’s Marine Corps birthday celebration at Camp Pendleton.

California Highway Patrol did not receive word that Marines would fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 17, according to reporting by the Los Angeles Times. A spokesperson for California Highway Patrol told the Times that although I Marine Expeditionary Force told them that Friday that there would be live-fire over the freeway the next day, it did not specify the rehearsal would also include live ammunition as well. The rehearsal took place in the afternoon, with Marines firing 30 155mm rounds while commuters traveled down the coast on the freeway and adjacent Amtr

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