Posted on Aug 14, 2015
Lightning strike injures 40 RANGER Students, 4 instructors. Your first thought?
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What is your first thought about this?
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(Reuters) - Forty Army Ranger students and four instructors were struck by lightning in Florida during a training program aimed at protecting themselves from a thunderstorm's lightning bolts, the U.S. Army said on Thursday.
All 44 individuals were taken to a local hospital for treatment following the Wednesday afternoon incident at Eglin Air Force Base, in north Florida, the Army said in a statement.
Seventeen students and three instructors remained overnight at the hospital while the remaining students and instructor were treated and released, the statement said.
"The Ranger students and instructors reacted and got everyone proper medical care quickly,” said Colonel David Fivecoat, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade commander.
“Ranger students and instructors are tough, 31 students will return to training tonight (Thursday) and continue with increased medical monitoring as they try to earn their Ranger tab," he said.
Army Rangers are rapidly deployable troops trained for mountain, desert and swamp terrain and often go after special operations targets.
Ranger School is an intense weeks-long combat boot camp.
The students were in day seven of the 10-day training cycle, the Army said.
The Army Times news site said the Ranger trainees were in the "swamp phase" which focuses on waterborne operations.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-lightning-strike-injures-40-us-army-ranger-students-four-instructors-2015-8#ixzz3ioaIszCQ
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(Reuters) - Forty Army Ranger students and four instructors were struck by lightning in Florida during a training program aimed at protecting themselves from a thunderstorm's lightning bolts, the U.S. Army said on Thursday.
All 44 individuals were taken to a local hospital for treatment following the Wednesday afternoon incident at Eglin Air Force Base, in north Florida, the Army said in a statement.
Seventeen students and three instructors remained overnight at the hospital while the remaining students and instructor were treated and released, the statement said.
"The Ranger students and instructors reacted and got everyone proper medical care quickly,” said Colonel David Fivecoat, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade commander.
“Ranger students and instructors are tough, 31 students will return to training tonight (Thursday) and continue with increased medical monitoring as they try to earn their Ranger tab," he said.
Army Rangers are rapidly deployable troops trained for mountain, desert and swamp terrain and often go after special operations targets.
Ranger School is an intense weeks-long combat boot camp.
The students were in day seven of the 10-day training cycle, the Army said.
The Army Times news site said the Ranger trainees were in the "swamp phase" which focuses on waterborne operations.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-lightning-strike-injures-40-us-army-ranger-students-four-instructors-2015-8#ixzz3ioaIszCQ
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Another reminder why the "Lightning W/I 5 NM" warning isn't issued to make weather people feel good... I hope they aren't worse for the event.
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This is very possible as I've been hit a 1/4 mile away from the strike. If the ground is damp you done have to be struck directly to get burned or worse.
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While stationed in Korea Lightning stuck a pool our company was standing next to, zipped a electrical mast down that almost took Top out. There was one huge flash after another as a few transformers exploded, people were scrambling left and right! was kinda cool to see, luckily no one was hurt . Since everyone is ok with the Rangers Ill make the comment of man those guys are smokin !!!!! Rangers Lead the way !!!!!!!!
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Training program aimed at protecting themselves from a thunderstorm's lightning bolts, do not work. Old school solution was we grounded all our metal objects, and even then Mother Nature always won. I guess when Mother is mad, one way or another She will get you.
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Thor said, allow me to enlighten you as to what "Embrace the Suck!" truly means. And not a single pair of drawers was saved that day.
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Living here in CO at the base of a massive mountain, plus having been in AZ before that, and an avid lightning fanatic - all military protocol aside, sometimes you're just gonna get thumped. It can come from the ground, the sky, it can come in a bolt, in a ball... You can take every precaution to avoid it, but here even on mostly clear days ground strikes still happen - imagine how many DON'T get reported for data.
Sidenote:
Yesterday when leaving the hangar the long beam on our little guard bar was buzzing. BUZZING. I chose not to walk to my car until much later, because I know when Darwin is tempting us.
Sidenote:
Yesterday when leaving the hangar the long beam on our little guard bar was buzzing. BUZZING. I chose not to walk to my car until much later, because I know when Darwin is tempting us.
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