Posted on 09/17/2008 9:41:54 AM PDT by Rebelbase
FORT BRAGG (AP) The Army says a Special Forces trainee found dead this summer during a land navigation exercise in North Carolina was bitten by a poisonous water moccasin, also known as a cottonmouth.
The military said Wednesday the autopsy of 20-year-old Pfc. Norman M. Murburg of Dade City, Fla., ruled out heat or dehydration as a cause of death. Murburg was bitten multiple times while training at the Hoffman training area near Fort Bragg's Camp Mackall.
Soldiers began searching for Murburg when he didn't return from the exercise. His body was found June 10. Authorities met with Murburg's family to explain the autopsy results.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Csrnko, who commands the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, said the death reinforces the dangerous training for Green Beret candidates.
I live in SC; I never had the pleasure of living there on the Sound. My parents moved there after they retired, and then my brother moved there a few years later. It’s a beautiful area, and I wish it weren’t 8 hours away. We’ve got my parents’ place up for sale now.
Those are very cool dogs grayhog. One of dog trainers trains the police dogs for Texas and he raises those dogs.
Ditto!!!!!
2008 MOC thread I ran across researching mocs this AM as I helplessly watched 2 babies gliding through the pond. Unhittable when they’re one foot long and 1/2” thick and 30ft away.
Snakes of all species are at their most active right now.
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