Report says lack of predeployment training, funding led to US soldier’s gruesome death
By Staff Writer| October 25th, 2018|Military News, U.S. Army|0 Comments
Earlier this month, a US Army Soldier became the eighth American to die in Afghanistan in 2018- and his gruesome death may have been the result of incompetence on the part of the ambushed unit he was attempting to assist, according to a recent report by the New York Times.
23-year-old North Carolina National Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician Specialist James Slape was killed on October 4 while responding to reports of an IED ambush along a strategically-important ridge, located in the Helmand Province.
Slape and other members of the North Carolina Guard’s 430th Ordnance Company embedded with a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) to aid members of the 41st Infantry Regiment’s 1st Battalion, who sustained no injuries but were ultimately rendered immobile after a vehicle struck a roadside bomb.
https://popularmilitary.com/report-says-lack-predeployment-training-funding-led-us-soldiers-gruesome-death/
