Army truck accident

Video shows apparent extrajudicial killings by the military in Mexico Footage shows soldiers disarming the men, sheltering from something, then altering the scene by placing weapons next to the bodies. The victims had just crashed their truck into a wall following a street chase that had residents hiding in their homes in the violence-ridden northern city of Nuevo Laredo Video footage from a security camera shows a new case of alleged abuse against five civilians in Nuevo Laredo, The images, to which EL PAÍS has had access, show how the soldiers also altered the scene of the crime afterwards. In the footage, one of them grabs long weapons with a red bag or cloth to avoid touching them with his hands and leaving fingerprints, then places them next to the corpses. Later, another soldier notices that one of the bodies is still wearing handcuffs. He asks another soldier for the key and they remove the cuffs. In between, paramedics arrive to take away the one survivor, who died later in the hospital. It was hours before representatives from the Prosecutor’s Office showed up. The officer in charge of the military convoy, Infantry Lieutenant José Luis N, signed the report that was filed with the Mexican Attorney General’s Office (FGR), in charge of the investigation. In the report, of which this newspaper has a copy, the lieutenant states that he and his men were disarming the civilians when some of the latter’s colleagues showed up and began shooting at them “in an attempt to re...

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A junior enlisted On Oct. 22 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, four soldiers were driving two M1120 Load Handling System vehicles on a tank trail to pick up ammunition packing waste at a firing range. The trailing truck rear-ended the lead vehicle. The first truck's flat rack crushed the driver's side of the second vehicle's cab. Spc. Mackenzie Shay, 20, was driving that second vehicle. She was unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene. The other three soldiers were evaluated and released from the hospital. Shay enlisted into the National Guard when she was 17 years old and served with G Company, 128th Brigade Support Battalion, 28th Infantry Division, as a petroleum supply specialist. Read Next: The news comes as the Army continues to grapple with tactical vehicle deaths within its ranks. Brig. Gen. Andrew Hilmes, who at the time was the director of Army safety, Army leadership has placed some of the blame on units overlooking safety when new commanders take over, with proper precautions sometimes falling through the cracks during hectic transitions. Other issues Army officials have noted include a steep decline in young soldiers having previous driving experiences and driver's licenses. The service has seen a drop in noncombat fatalities, which include training mishaps and vehicle incidents, with 14 on-duty deaths in fiscal 2022, which ended Sept. 30, compared to 20 soldiers dying the previous year. Those on-duty deaths include four vehicle incidents, a lightning...

BERLIN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A truck crashed into several U.S. army vehicles, including two fuel tankers, that had pulled over to the side of a highway in southern Germany on Monday, setting off a blazing inferno and injuring several people, police and the U.S. military said. The driver of the truck was believed to have been killed, police said. Eight U.S. soldiers were taken to the hospital for precautionary screening, the 7th Army Training Command said, but no U.S. personnel were reported otherwise injured. A convoy of four U.S. military vehicles from the Training Command had pulled over to the side of the motorway southeast of the Bavarian city of Nuremberg when an articulated truck struck them from behind. The smash caused a multi-vehicle pileup and a blaze that engulfed several vehicles in flames and sent plumes of smoke into the sky, police said. The truck was loaded with wood chips and caught on fire, Bild newspaper cited police as saying. Two of the U.S. vehicles involved were tanker trucks but they did not explode, police said. The police said several people were injured. Rescue crews had been unable to pull the driver of the truck out of the badly damaged cab but they did not believe he had survived. Photographs from the scene showed the burnt-out wrecks of several vehicles by the foam-covered side of the road. Police said they believed the crash had been an accident. The U.S. 7th Army Training Command's Combined Arms Training Center, based in Grafenwoehr, was set ...

The driver of the vehicle, a 19-year-old Marine, was charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and exceeding a safe speed, Sgt. Devin Rich, a spokesman for the North Carolina Highway Patrol, told reporters that the vehicle was traveling “a little too fast for the right turn that they were attempting to make.” 2nd Marine Logistics Group said that they were “grateful to all first responders that provided aid to our service members.” Vehicle rollovers and, more broadly, vehicle accidents outside of combat zones, have claimed the lives of dozens of service members in recent years. The report found that rollovers were by far the deadliest kind of accident. Despite being responsible for one-quarter of the accidents, they accounted for 63% of the deaths reviewed in the study. Brig. Gen. Andrew Hilmes, commander of the Army's Combat Readiness Center and director of Army safety, The annual defense policy bill signed into law last month seeks to reduce vehicle training accidents by requiring the Army and Marine Corps to implement the recommendations of the July GAO report. The Army and Marine Corps have 180 days from the date the defense bill became law in December to deliver Congress a plan on implementing the recommendations, which included more clearly defined roles for vehicle commanders, procedures to help supervisors enhance tactical vehicle safety, and performance criteria and measurable standards for driver training programs. The services have 18 months to actually imp...

BERLIN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A truck crashed into several U.S. army vehicles, including two fuel tankers, that had pulled over to the side of a highway in southern Germany on Monday, setting off a blazing inferno and injuring several people, police and the U.S. military said. The driver of the truck was believed to have been killed, police said. Eight U.S. soldiers were taken to the hospital for precautionary screening, the 7th Army Training Command said, but no U.S. personnel were reported otherwise injured. A convoy of four U.S. military vehicles from the Training Command had pulled over to the side of the motorway southeast of the Bavarian city of Nuremberg when an articulated truck struck them from behind. The smash caused a multi-vehicle pileup and a blaze that engulfed several vehicles in flames and sent plumes of smoke into the sky, police said. The truck was loaded with wood chips and caught on fire, Bild newspaper cited police as saying. Two of the U.S. vehicles involved were tanker trucks but they did not explode, police said. The police said several people were injured. Rescue crews had been unable to pull the driver of the truck out of the badly damaged cab but they did not believe he had survived. Photographs from the scene showed the burnt-out wrecks of several vehicles by the foam-covered side of the road. Police said they believed the crash had been an accident. The U.S. 7th Army Training Command's Combined Arms Training Center, based in Grafenwoehr, was set ...

Video shows apparent extrajudicial killings by the military in Mexico Footage shows soldiers disarming the men, sheltering from something, then altering the scene by placing weapons next to the bodies. The victims had just crashed their truck into a wall following a street chase that had residents hiding in their homes in the violence-ridden northern city of Nuevo Laredo Video footage from a security camera shows a new case of alleged abuse against five civilians in Nuevo Laredo, The images, to which EL PAÍS has had access, show how the soldiers also altered the scene of the crime afterwards. In the footage, one of them grabs long weapons with a red bag or cloth to avoid touching them with his hands and leaving fingerprints, then places them next to the corpses. Later, another soldier notices that one of the bodies is still wearing handcuffs. He asks another soldier for the key and they remove the cuffs. In between, paramedics arrive to take away the one survivor, who died later in the hospital. It was hours before representatives from the Prosecutor’s Office showed up. The officer in charge of the military convoy, Infantry Lieutenant José Luis N, signed the report that was filed with the Mexican Attorney General’s Office (FGR), in charge of the investigation. In the report, of which this newspaper has a copy, the lieutenant states that he and his men were disarming the civilians when some of the latter’s colleagues showed up and began shooting at them “in an attempt to re...

A junior enlisted On Oct. 22 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, four soldiers were driving two M1120 Load Handling System vehicles on a tank trail to pick up ammunition packing waste at a firing range. The trailing truck rear-ended the lead vehicle. The first truck's flat rack crushed the driver's side of the second vehicle's cab. Spc. Mackenzie Shay, 20, was driving that second vehicle. She was unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene. The other three soldiers were evaluated and released from the hospital. Shay enlisted into the National Guard when she was 17 years old and served with G Company, 128th Brigade Support Battalion, 28th Infantry Division, as a petroleum supply specialist. Read Next: The news comes as the Army continues to grapple with tactical vehicle deaths within its ranks. Brig. Gen. Andrew Hilmes, who at the time was the director of Army safety, Army leadership has placed some of the blame on units overlooking safety when new commanders take over, with proper precautions sometimes falling through the cracks during hectic transitions. Other issues Army officials have noted include a steep decline in young soldiers having previous driving experiences and driver's licenses. The service has seen a drop in noncombat fatalities, which include training mishaps and vehicle incidents, with 14 on-duty deaths in fiscal 2022, which ended Sept. 30, compared to 20 soldiers dying the previous year. Those on-duty deaths include four vehicle incidents, a lightning...

The driver of the vehicle, a 19-year-old Marine, was charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and exceeding a safe speed, Sgt. Devin Rich, a spokesman for the North Carolina Highway Patrol, told reporters that the vehicle was traveling “a little too fast for the right turn that they were attempting to make.” 2nd Marine Logistics Group said that they were “grateful to all first responders that provided aid to our service members.” Vehicle rollovers and, more broadly, vehicle accidents outside of combat zones, have claimed the lives of dozens of service members in recent years. The report found that rollovers were by far the deadliest kind of accident. Despite being responsible for one-quarter of the accidents, they accounted for 63% of the deaths reviewed in the study. Brig. Gen. Andrew Hilmes, commander of the Army's Combat Readiness Center and director of Army safety, The annual defense policy bill signed into law last month seeks to reduce vehicle training accidents by requiring the Army and Marine Corps to implement the recommendations of the July GAO report. The Army and Marine Corps have 180 days from the date the defense bill became law in December to deliver Congress a plan on implementing the recommendations, which included more clearly defined roles for vehicle commanders, procedures to help supervisors enhance tactical vehicle safety, and performance criteria and measurable standards for driver training programs. The services have 18 months to actually imp...

Video shows apparent extrajudicial killings by the military in Mexico Footage shows soldiers disarming the men, sheltering from something, then altering the scene by placing weapons next to the bodies. The victims had just crashed their truck into a wall following a street chase that had residents hiding in their homes in the violence-ridden northern city of Nuevo Laredo Video footage from a security camera shows a new case of alleged abuse against five civilians in Nuevo Laredo, The images, to which EL PAÍS has had access, show how the soldiers also altered the scene of the crime afterwards. In the footage, one of them grabs long weapons with a red bag or cloth to avoid touching them with his hands and leaving fingerprints, then places them next to the corpses. Later, another soldier notices that one of the bodies is still wearing handcuffs. He asks another soldier for the key and they remove the cuffs. In between, paramedics arrive to take away the one survivor, who died later in the hospital. It was hours before representatives from the Prosecutor’s Office showed up. The officer in charge of the military convoy, Infantry Lieutenant José Luis N, signed the report that was filed with the Mexican Attorney General’s Office (FGR), in charge of the investigation. In the report, of which this newspaper has a copy, the lieutenant states that he and his men were disarming the civilians when some of the latter’s colleagues showed up and began shooting at them “in an attempt to re...