“Training accident deaths”, incoming...
Ping.
During Desert Shield a SSG friend of mine/wife’s friend had dinner before we left for Korea. The widow showed up in my living room. I was working on Korean support/Korean GI death response, cold storage, personnel issues in the USFK J1.
Next morning I went to my LTC and asked to see the Iraq Casuality lists. I coul not find his name. Boss asked me cease and desist after initial denials. About 3 weeks later, he came out on the first day’s list of KIAs. They even tried to have CID and MPI her and the kids. Raked my wife over the coals. I had just left an IG Assignment in the 82d so basically my wife and navigated the situation. My boss explained the Army was withholding casualty reporting during the Shield, until the Storm. Optics.