FBI agent killed while training

Seatlepi.com ^ | December 6, 2006 | AP

[RDTF]

An FBI agent was killed Wednesday during a live-fire training exercise, the agency said.

Supervisory Special Agent Gregory J. Rahoi, 38, of Wisconsin, was shot Wednesday during the exercise at Fort A.P. Hill, a sprawling Army base about an hour south of Washington. (DC)

Rahoi was flown to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, where he later was pronounced dead, the FBI said in a release.

Rahoi joined the FBI in 1997 and had served with the agency's Hostage Rescue Team for the past six years.

Fort A.P. Hill hosts about 60,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines annually at the 76,000-acre post's live-fire ranges and other training facilities. Federal law enforcement agencies also use the facilities on a regular basis, the FBI said.

The last time someone died during live fire training at Fort A.P. Hill was in December 2000, said Ken Perrotte, a spokesman for the base.

The FBI and Army are investigating the incident

[RDTF]

ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

May the gentleman rest in peace. Prayers for his family.

[DuncanWaring]

Too bad it wasn't Lon Horiuchi.

Oops! Did I say that? Never mind! I don't know what I was thinking.

[shadowcat]

You beat me to it!

[DuncanWaring]

As an aside, to the best of anyone's knowledge, has the "Hostage Rescue Team" ever actually rescued a hostage?

[RDTF]

This is not the place for that crap. Please show some respect.

[DuncanWaring]

Fast Fingers - Gift from God.

Bitter mind - Gift from Mr. Horiuchi.

[lightman]

http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=18620

Supervisory Special Agent Gregory J. Rahoi
United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S. Government
End of Watch: Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Biographical Info
Age: 38
Tour of Duty: 9 years
Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)
Date of Incident: Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Incident Location: Virginia
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Not available

Special Agent Gregory Rahoi was shot and killed while participating in a live fire training exercise on Fort A.P. Hill in Caroline County, Virginia. He was flown to Mary Washington Hospital, in Fredericksburg, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Special Agent Rahoi had served with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 9 years. He had served with the Hostage Rescue Team for the past 6 years.

Agency Contact Information
United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20535

Phone: (202) 324-3000

Please contact the United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation for funeral arrangements

[fatima]

Amen.

[DuncanWaring]

Why is the FBI running live-fire exercises?

[LiveFree99]

I don't know because I'm not sure exactly when the HRT formally came into existence.

I do remember an incident in the early to mid 80s when some loon was holding a passenger plane hostage on the ground. An FBI agent crawled through a window and shot and killed the perp. I remember the story because of the reporter's whiny sympathy for the would-be hijacker.

Nowadays? Haven't heard of any. The FBI have probably killed more people than they've rescued.

[krb]

Didn't some Boy Scouts get struck by lightning there last summer? That place must be cursed...

[LiveFree99]

Live-fire exercises are routinely done in training.

[MindBender26]

Hard practices = easy missions.

Spent many days evading PAVN in RVN, but that was never as hard as evading the San Blas Indians who were paid a $25 a head bounty if they caught us on mission work-ups and training exercises in Panama.

[DuncanWaring]

By the FBI? Why?

The only reason I can think of is to feed their own little egos as "The Praetorian Guard".

[DuncanWaring]

Well, yeah, but if the San Blas caught you, I'm pretty sure they just turned you in to collect the $25 - they wouldn't shoot you.

[cydcharisse]

The Fort's 76,000 acres big. That's 120 square miles. Lots of bad stuff can happen in that amount of space.

[SandRat]

Psa 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Isa 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

Jhn 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

[Safetgiver]

Must have had his letters from home given to him.