[Enchante]

horrible day for military accidents!!

[Newbomb Turk]

LMTV's Light Medium Tactical Vehicles are easy to tip on a good day.

People do not understand the awesome power of flowing water.

Prayers up for my fellow Soldiers.

[WENDLE]

Thanks guys for your service, Sad day.

[Gator113]

Very sad.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Not a good day to go training on low water crossing. Part of Ft. Hood are closed because of high water. Somebody screwed up royally.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[fella]

There’s flooding all over central Texas. “And the big fool says to push on”.

[JoeProBono]

WATERY CROSSING: A truck drives across the second low-water bridge from Blakely Dam Road on Owl Creek Road after heavy rains on Friday caused the creek to rise over the road.

[blueunicorn6]

We had an M-88 Recovery Vehicle towing an M-60 tank get washed away at Otter Creek at Fort Knox. That’s about 120 tons.

[deport]

At least 12 soldiers were involved, three drowned, three okay and six unaccounted for.
Somebody is going to be held accountable for crossing that low water crossing even if it
wasn’t that deep. There is a major difference between still water and water with a
fast moving current.

A lot of Texas is having flooding problems of record breaking proportions.
Additional rain is forecast for the upcoming weekend in these areas.

[smokingfrog]

RIP

[Pollard]

If it’s anything like low water crossings around here, it’s concrete poured over culvert pipe and they have no guardrail. Real easy to drive off one side when you can’t see the edges.
Or, they could have run up on something like a log that they couldn’t see.

[Does so]

I wonder what U.S. “peacetime” losses are, and the losses that occurred during “The Cold War” period. Yesterday certainly seemed like a disastrous day for our military.

[2harddrive]

But, once the men get free, out of the back of the vehicle, why could they not swim, not against the flow, but perpendicular to it, to a point where it was shallow enough to walk?