FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) — The Army identified two Soldiers killed while training in the mountains of north Georgia as a special forces medical sergeant and recent graduate of West Point.
Staff Sgt. George Taber and 2nd Lt. Evan Fitzgibbon died Tuesday after being hit by a falling tree while taking shelter during “a weather-related break in training,” Army officials at Fort Benning said in a news release. Three other soldiers were injured and treated in a hospital.
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