Posted on 09/13/2020 4:52:15 PM PDT by upchuck
A 29-year-old soldier in basic training was found dead in his barracks at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, Army officials said, marking the fourth death of a soldier at the base in the past year.
The active-duty soldier from Wisconsin was not immediately identified. The base is holding a 48-hour training stand down following the death, the 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment said in a statement.
While the cause of death was under investigation, the base said it was unrelated to COVID-19 and active field training exercise. No further details were immediately given.
Three other soldiers-in-training have died at the base within the past year.
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Gomer Pyle was 32 when he joined the Marines .
I’m grateful that I passed through Ft Jackson in Jan/Feb rather than the hot, humid eastern summer.
I’ll never forget the day that they called an unusual formation, paraded us into a building we’d never been in, sat us down in a room with a bunch of student desks and put the news on a large screen in the front of the room about the Challenger disaster, January 28, 1986.
It was surreal, but nobody in our platoon died. One blanket party for an idiot was all.
Oh yeah
In 1986 we were mixed. The only time one’s destiny made a difference was in calling out meal card numbers in the chow line.
“J4045475, National Guard, Ma’am!”
—that was me.
In 1987, finding I enjoyed Guard Drills more than my civilian job, I joined the Regular Army.
That’s when I was there. Did the same thing.
Yes it is. I didn’t know all these older guys were joining up. I was 19 when I went through Air Force basic training. My son was 26, when he went to Air Force OTS. He sent me some nice pictures of himself, in front of the aircraft he flies. 👍
I went through in March of 73, tough as nails, but in addition to basic rifle marksmanship, we went through an additional week of automatic fire familiarization.
One week? Impressive!
Yes. We got a class on the care and feeding of the M-60, then we lined up as 4 platoons behind 4 M-60’s on the range and fired around 35 rounds. I learned how important bracing sandbags into the bipods were, LOL.
These tragedies only happened because the US Army forts in the South are named for CSA generals.
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