Every year young people die in boot camp, mostly from heart conditions that went undetected until they put their bodies under physical stress (many for the first time ever). That it happened to two young women in a row is just dumb luck. The media will probably try to play up the gender issue but young men die in boot camp all the time. It’s not that unusual.
Going to NTC Great Lakes in August will test your physicality fer sure. I thought I was gonna die a couple of times.
Hard physical exercise.. “many for the first time ever” . thank you, in my company alone, there were a few fat asses , a 32yo recovering alcoholic who was ex army and couldn’t make it as homeless, and a guy who murdered his ex girlfriend a couple of weeks after boot camp.. Its a mishmash of people. we had one guy die. He just up and died in the middle of the night after a round of vaccinations. Nobody ever told us WHY, just that he didn’t make it.
And young men who die in bot camp don’t get media stories about them.
I came down with double pneumonia in my second week in
basic.They called my family to hurry to Ft Campbell.
Sad story.She gave all.RIP
Physical and general stress. Most kids think they are “stressed” but many of them have literally never been yelled at.
Some of them fold like a cheap camp chair.
Could be, but we really don’t know enough at this point IMO.