15 soldiers treated for lightning strike
Clay sends a link to the news that 15 Fort Jackson, South Carolina soldiers were treated for being near a lightning strike. None were actually injured, but they were sent for treatment as a precaution;
The Fort Jackson PAO’s office says the lightning strike happened in a field where 200 soldiers in the 2nd Battalion of the 13th Regiment were conducting training around 3:45 p.m. near the Percival Road side of the post.
Officials say 15 of those soldiers were taken to the hospital as a precaution, but there are no injuries. The soldiers are back in training.
The soldiers were underneath a lightning-proof structure 50 to 60 meters from the location of the strike and felt it, but there were no injuries.
Lightning hates the Army.
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“Lightening hates the Army”
Evidenced by the individual load.
wow, were they dark-skinned and turned Caucasian?
Here’s the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5pM1HXxlI
Thor has spoken!
Just what did those Troops do to piss Thor off that badly!
“Lightening” —-could this be an Army weight loss program?
Any soldiers not injured by hot weather or a tidal wave that the news wants to report?
I’d be more concerned if they were anywhere near anything electrical in nature.
Now all their digital watches are flashing 12:00, and no one knows how to fix it.
That’s an easy fix AW1ED, the watches can be fined tuned with a hammer and chisel.
Good old percussive maintenance, I like it! Works best when the object of PM is actually useful again.
I went to BCT in Relaxin’ Jackson in ’01. We weren’t allowed to wear watches in training until after The Hump. The only clocks we had were in the bays.
I’m only 39, does that qualify me to have a “back in my day” story?
They had very pregnant trainees in the field and fifteen lightened at once???
(I shouldn’t laugh; I’ve started mixing those up myself.)
A good friend of mine was in charge of Ft. Jackson EMS, and that incident. She said total on scene time before all were transported was 9 min. Pretty damn good job if you ask me.
My nephew is in basic with echo platoon.
It seems he will be okay but that has to be a hell of a story
Disregard. He is with the 2-60.
Rumors spread so I think stories will be wild regardless
I wonder if any of them will will put the wax on the turntable and play Lightin’Strikes by Lou Christie. I didn’t say I Wonder Why because that would bring us into the Belmont’s and that’s another Story Untold. Oh Oh, I did it again.
“The soldiers were underneath a lightning-proof structure 50 to 60 meters from the location of the strike and felt it, but there were no injuries.”
Huh? No one was struck. No one was injured. Gawd. What a bunch of babies.
Welcome to the new Army.
In ’01 the Drill’s warming tent was struck and we had a Drill come out with his arm almost paralyzed while he was steaming to yell at us to get under the shelters. After we finished that range, he rode back with the Supply Sergeant while the rest of us marched.