A U.S. worker died during a grooming incidental successful Hungary, the Army said Saturday successful a quality release.
Sgt. Aaron Cox, 24, of Mabank, Texas, died Thursday adjacent Camp Croft, Hungary.
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Sgt. Aaron Cox, 24, of Mabank, Texas, died Thursday adjacent Camp Croft, Hungary, during preparations for the upcoming Exercise Saber Guardian 25. The Army said Cox died arsenic a effect of wounds from a conveyance accident, but didn't supply further details.
Cox joined the Army successful 2021, and this was his 2nd deployment. He antecedently deployed to Poland successful 2022. He was an Infantryman assigned to the "Strike" 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).
"The nonaccomplishment of Sgt. Cox is simply a calamity for each of america connected the Strike team," said, Col. Duke Reim, commander, 2MBCT, 101st Airborne Div. "He was a beardown Soldier and leader, who rapidly roseate done the ranks portion serving." He besides thanked the Hungarian allies for their assistance and enactment to the soldiers.
Reim said an probe into the mishap is ongoing.
A akin calamity occurred a fewer months anterior erstwhile 4 U.S. soldiers died successful March in Lithuania aft they went missing portion conducting a ngo to repair and tow an immobilized tactical vehicle. The soldiers were connected a grooming workout astatine the monolithic General Silvestras Žukauskas grooming crushed successful the municipality of Pabradė. Their conveyance was reported missing the pursuing morning, the U.S. Army said, and was past recovered the adjacent time by the Army and Lithuanian authorities.
It took much than a week to region their submerged armored betterment conveyance from a peat bog. Thick mud and brushed crushed astir the tract made it a complicated betterment effort, the Army said. It required specialized instrumentality to drain h2o from the broadside and "stabilize the ground," to propulsion the 70-ton conveyance ashore.
Hundreds of work members from the Army, Navy and the militaries of Lithuania and Poland helped successful the effort to bring the 63-ton M88A2 Hercules armored betterment conveyance to the surface, the bid said.
The Associated Press and Alex Sundby contributed to this report.
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