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Special Forces soldier drowns in Key West pool during underwater combat training said to be the Army's toughest course - the second death at facility in five years
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news]- Staff Sergeant Micah E. Walker of Peyton, Colorado, died during training
- Training exercise was at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center's Special Forces Underwater Operations course at a Key West Army facility
- 'During the training event, the soldier submerged and did not resurface,' an army press release stated
- A spokesperson for the facility said that an autopsy had yet to be performed at that the cause of death was unknown
- Walker is survived by a wife and three children, and had just qualified to become a Special Forces medical sergeant this January
- Walker had received the Army Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Good Conduct medal and a slew of other accolades
- The seven-week training is considered the most difficult throughout the military branch, and two thirds of the elite soldiers who are chosen to participate quit
- Trainees learn to fight other divers underwater and travel long distances underwater for covert operations
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-30 |
