Posted on Jul 3, 2016
Teenage West Point cadet dies after trying to save swimmer
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A sad day for West Point LTC Stephen F.. My sympathies to his family and friends. He lived the Army values.
Teenage West Point cadet dies after trying to save swimmer
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I concur SFC William Farrell. From all accounts Cadet Thomas Surdyke died trying to save a swimmer at Coopers Beach in Southampton on Long Island. Thankfully he saved the other swimmer but it turned out to cost his own life.
When I was a cadet candidate at USMPS at Fort Monmouth we lost a cadet candidate swimming in the ocean when he smacked into a concrete tube and snapped his neck in 1975. We had survival water training in 1976 as cadets at West Point. In May 1980 a couple weeks before graduation one of my friends and classmates drowned in the Sandhurst competition land navigation test when he slipped crossing a swollen stream and hit his head and drowned.
When I was a cadet candidate at USMPS at Fort Monmouth we lost a cadet candidate swimming in the ocean when he smacked into a concrete tube and snapped his neck in 1975. We had survival water training in 1976 as cadets at West Point. In May 1980 a couple weeks before graduation one of my friends and classmates drowned in the Sandhurst competition land navigation test when he slipped crossing a swollen stream and hit his head and drowned.
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SFC William Farrell
Im sorry to hear about your classmates LTC Stephen F.. Thats why I avoid the beach. I think my mother tried to drown me as a child, the evil twin i am! :-)
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