Massachusetts soldier dies at Guantanamo Bay

[Judi Lynn]

Massachusetts soldier dies at Guantanamo Bay

The Associated Press

BOSTON --
An Army national guardsman from Massachusetts has died of non-combat related injuries at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Sgt. Theodore L. Perreault, 33, of Webster, died Wednesday at Camp Bulkeley, in Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon announced Friday.

No further details about the death were available and the incident remains under investigation, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Halbig said.

Perreault was assigned to the 1st Battalion of the 181st Infantry Regiment of the Army National Guard.
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Last modified: December 26. 2003 5:48PM

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031226/APN/312260755

[mbperrin]

1. "died Wednesday":

Well, it's Friday, time to throw the non-essential news into the weekend dark hole.....

I'm really becoming quite unfond of the bastards that are running this place....

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Two observations:

An Army national guardsman from Massachusetts has died of non-combat related injuries at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Well, DUH! Gitmo is not a combat zone.

So, the did he hang himeself, slash his wrists or OD?

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[Judi Lynn]

3. The wording is peculiar, isn't it?

Very little information escapes from that place.

Judi Lynn

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[RedSock]

4. more ??

"She learned of her husband's death from the Pentagon on Christmas Eve. The Pentagon gave her no details about his death, she said."

How common is that? To be told "your husband's dead" and nothing more?

[Judi Lynn]

5. That would be almost impossible to live with. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

6. UPDATE ON THE STORY, Much more information.

Mass. guardsman is killed at Guantanamo Bay base
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 12/27/2003

WASHINGTON -- A Massachusetts man serving in the Army National Guard was found dead this week at the war on terrorism prison operation at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the Department of Defense announced yesterday.

Sergeant Theodore L. Perreault, a 33-year-old volunteer firefighter from Webster, died Dec. 23 from noncombat-related injuries, a Pentagon statement said.

Reached in Cuba, Lieutenant Colonel Pamela Hart, an operation spokeswoman, said the injury was a gunshot wound to the head sustained while Perreault was in an arms storage room belonging to his infantry unit, the First Battalion of the 181st Infantry Regiment.

"Last Tuesday evening, a gunshot was heard coming from the vicinity of the 1-181st Infantry mobile arms room," Hart said. "Soldiers arrived at the scene and found Sergeant Perreault wounded from what appeared to be a gunshot wound to his head. Emergency medical personnel arrived very quickly, but he was pronounced dead on the scene."
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/12/27/mass_guardsman_is_killed_at_guantanamo_bay_base/