And while the remnants of Tropical Storm Nestor swept across southeast Georgia late Saturday and early Sunday, Aguto said there had been no severe weather warnings and the storm’s rain and winds had already passed before the crash occurred.Īt least 12 Army soldiers have died in nine training accidents across the U.S. The training exercise being conducted early Sunday had been planned and rehearsed ahead of time, Aguto said. The third remained hospitalized Monday with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, Aguto said.
Two were treated and released from an Army hospital the day of the crash. Three other soldiers in the vehicle were injured. Investigators from the Army Combat Readiness Center at Fort Rucker, Alabama, expect to take up to four weeks before giving Fort Stewart commanders a preliminary report, Barksdale said. The Army is conducting autopsies to determine how the soldiers died. Six soldiers were riding in a Bradley fighting vehicle in a training area of the sprawling Army post southwest of Savannah when it “rolled off a bridge and was submerged upside down in a stream,” Aguto said.Īguto and Michael Barksdale, the Army’s lead investigator on the crash, declined to give further details such as how far the vehicle fell and the depth of the water. Sunday as the brigade was training for a rotation early next year at the Army’s National Training Center in California. Aguto said the deadly crash happened shortly before 3:30 a.m. The soldiers belonged to the 1st Armored Brigade of the Fort Stewart-based 3rd Infantry Division. Thomas Walker, 22, of Conneaut, Ohio and Pfc. 1st Class Bryan Jenkins, 41, of Gainesville, Florida Cpl. The Army identified the soldiers who died as Sgt. And we are really feeling and sharing that pain.” “But when you lose three at one time, that pain is amplified.
“It is hard enough when you lose one soldier,” Aguto said. Antonio Aguto struggled to hold back tears at a news conference as he read the names of the soldiers who died Sunday during a training exercise hours before dawn. Soldiers were training in darkness when their armored vehicle fell from a bridge and landed upside down in water below, killing three of those inside and injuring three others, the commanding general of Fort Stewart said Monday. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton, File)įORT STEWART, Ga. Officials with the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield's 3rd Infantry Division said in a news release that the crash on Sunday, Oct. Army officials say three soldiers were killed and three others were injured when the armored vehicle they were riding in rolled over into water during training at Fort Stewart. 24, 2009, file photo a soldier walks through the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team motor pool at Fort Stewart, Ga.
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