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Army unit accidentally tear gassed soldiers during pre-Thanksgiving morale event
[FoxNews] About 8,000 soldiers with the Army's 4th Infantry Division were accidentally tear-gassed during a physical morale event that was held the day before Thanksgiving.Oh my! Contact wearers and pregnant combatees worst hit! The soldiers, participating in a physical morale event which saw them attempting to scale obstacles, run up hills, and crawl through trenches, were exposed to the tear gas without prior knowledge the chemicals would be used during the event, according to a report from Military.com Tuesday. Leaders with the division, based at Fort Carson, Colorado, took the unusual step of marking the boundary of the course with tear gas. However, soldiers participating in the event were not warned and did not have any protective gear, such as gas masks, when the gas drifted with the wind and settled on the soldiers on the course. "The purpose of this event was to build unit cohesion. Leaders at echelon participated in this event with Soldiers," Fort Carson spokesperson Dee McNutt said in a statement to Military.com. "The limited use of CS [gas] was not intended to interfere with the formations but to deter participants from leaving the course." The morale event was intended to pay homage to the Vietnam War Battle of Dak To. The 4th Infantry Division participated in the battle, which saw 361 soldiers killed, though the Americans and South Vietnamese Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-01 |
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