Officials: Man killed while scavenging at Bragg

[unhappycamper]

Officials: Man killed while scavenging at Bragg
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 2, 2009 19:38:47 EST

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Fort Bragg officials say a civilian killed in an explosion at the post was scavenging for scrap metal when he stepped on a round and it exploded.

Officials identified the man killed Friday as 47-year-old Ronnie Blue of Hamlet. They said Monday that another man who was there was not injured in the explosion. The blast occurred in an area that overlooks the range where soldiers practice firing artillery, tank shells and smaller weapons.

The post said the men were not Army employees.

Fort Bragg law enforcement officials are investigating.

The post is home to the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and Special Operations Command.


Article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/ap_bragg_death_civilian_110209/

[juno jones]

1. Well this is a new wrinkle.

I expect we will be seeing more of this sort of thing as people become more desparate and public art becomes fewer and farther between.

[unhappycamper]

2. There were a few guys who were killed scavaging brass at Ft. Bragg

a few months ago. Unfortunately, the archives in the Veterans forum did not survive.