Army identifies Ft Jackson soldiers killed in accident

Stars & Stripes reports that the Army has identified the troops killed and injured at Fort Jackson, South Carolina last week;

They are: Pvt. Ethan Shrader, from Prospect, TN., and Pvt. Timothy Ashcraft, from Cincinnati, OH.

Shrader, 19, was transported to an area hospital where he died at 4:39 p.m., according to Richland County Coroner Gary Watts. Shrader was a pedestrian soldier who was struck by a military vehicle, and an autopsy indicated multiple blunt force trauma to the torso was the cause of death.

The injured were: Pvt. Emmett Foreman, from Daleville, AL; Pvt. Hannah New, Cartersville, GA; Pvt. Benjamin Key, Livingston, TN: Pvt. Alan Kryszak, Clarksville, TN; Pvt. Cardre Jackson Jr., Laurel, MD; and Pvt. James Foster, Macon, GA.

It seems that, because of the ranks of the people involved, it was a training unit that was struck by the vehicle. The Army has admitted that they were struck while in a “troop formation”.

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