Military officials release names of Army Ranger candidates killed in Georgia
Two soldiers based at Fort Benning, Georgia, died and three others were injured in a weather-related incident Tuesday.
Two soldiers based at Fort Benning, Georgia, died and three others were injured in a weather-related incident Tuesday.
Two soldiers based at Fort Benning, Georgia, died and three others were injured in a weather-related incident Tuesday.
The U.S. Army on Wednesday evening released the names of two Ranger candidates who were killed Tuesday in a "weather-related incident," CNN reported.
The dead are identified as Second Lt. Evan Fitzgibbon and Staff Sgt. George Taber.
Titzgibbon was commissioned at West Point in May of 2021; Taber was a special forces medical sergeant, oficials said.
Three other service members were injured in the incident, but the Army has not released their names or medical condition.
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Initial report:
Two soldiers based at Fort Benning, Georgia, died and three others were injured in a weather-related incident Tuesday during training on a mountain in the northern part of the state, Army officials said Tuesday.
An Army spokesperson told WAGA-TV that the deceased soldiers, whose names have not yet been released, were at Yonah Mountain for a training program at the Maneuver Center of Excellence. The injured soldiers were treated by Army personnel before being transported to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately available.
Details about what happened have not been released.
The Army conducts training on Yonah Mountain including the Ranger School’s Mountain Phase. Soldiers who train on the mountain typically will report out of Camp Merrill in the northern part of the state.
Yonah Mountain is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta and 170 miles (275 kilometers) northeast of Fort Benning.
This is the second deadly incident involving soldiers stationed in Georgia in the past month. In late July, Sgt. 1st Class Michael D. Clark was killed by a lightning strike at Fort Gordon near Augusta. Nine other soldiers were also injured in the incident.