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Posted on 06/05/2016 9:49:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Fort Hood officials released the names of eight of the nine soldiers Saturday who were killed earlier this week in Texas after floodwaters overturned an Army tactical vehicle at a low-water crossing during a training exercise.
Officials identified the soldiers as Staff Sgt. Miguel Angel Colonvazquez, 38, of Brooklyn, New York; Spc. Christine Faith Armstrong, 27, of Twentynine Palms, California; Pfc. Brandon Austin Banner, 22, of Milton, Florida; Pfc. Zachery Nathaniel Fuller, 23, of Palmetto, Florida; Pvt. Isaac Lee Deleon, 19, of San Angelo, Texas; Pvt. Eddy Raelaurin Gates, 20, of Dunn, North Carolina; Pvt. Tysheena Lynette James, 21, of Jersey City, New Jersey; and Cadet Mitchell Alexander Winey, 21, of Valparaiso, Indiana.
Officials with the post said the name of the ninth soldier who died won’t be released until the family can be notified.
Fort Hood released biographical information on the deceased soldiers on Facebook.
The heavy rain that’s been hovering over parts of Southeast and Central Texas and caused deadly flooding began to lift Saturday, but officials said the flooding emergency near the Gulf Coast was worsening and Army officials kept up their investigation of a training exercise that turned deadly at Fort Hood.
Mincy told the Kileen Daily Herald that he arrived at the scene of the overturned 2 1/2 –ton vehicle from the low-water crossing at around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. He said firefighters had already pulled the three surviving soldiers from the rushing waters of Owl Creek.
"I can't estimate how fast it was flowing, but it was faster than I would have felt comfortable putting anything into the water," Mincy said. "When we did find the vehicle, we could see the tires sticking up out of the water, so in that position where the vehicle settled, it had to have been about 8 feet deep."
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Very very sad. May God sustain their families, who have lost their children through a foolish mistake.
Don’t drive through moving flood water. Don’t walk through it. Still flood waters aren’t that much better. They hide holes and snags and downed wires.
This tragedy happened due to a gross failure of leadership from the Commanding officer down to this dumb ass incompetent SSgt. This incident disgusts me to my core.
It’s the Obama Military.
Beannachd Dia dhuit.
Hubby saw an 18-wheeler moved off a highway with 2 feet of swift moving water.
A West Point cadet was among the dead. Cadets are assigned to active army units during the summer as leadership training normally as a platoon leader so he would have been the senior leader from a rank perspective. RIP to all.
Saw that. Not sure what to make of it. Hope that it wasn’t he who gave the order to enter the water. But having heard stories from someone who graduated USMA, those kids are under a lot of pressure to perform.
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