A vehicle accident that killed one cadet from the US Military Academy and injured 21 others is refocusing attention on a startling statistic: more American service members are dying during training exercises than in combat operations
Washington A vehicle accident that killed one cadet from the US Military Academy and injured 21 others Thursday is refocusing attention on a startling statistic -- more American service members are dying during training exercises than in combat operations.
Between 2006 and 2018, 31.9% of active-duty military deaths were the result of accidents, according to a congressional report updated last month. By comparison, 16.3% of service members who died during that time were killed in action. And a large majority of those accidents occurred in circumstances unrelated to combat deployments. One person dead, 21 injured in accident near West Point training site"Since 2006 ...
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