Note it does not say what he was doing at Fort Benning when he broke his legs. Could he have been training to try out for SF? Doubtful as he should have know he did not qualify with just a GED.
My guess is he stretched the truth and the military spokes... "person" is dancing around it by saying, or actually not saying, what Snowden was doing when his legs were broken.
Here’s one guys take....
Go to:
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/scra/single_record.xhtml – DOD search for active duty dates.
If you search Edward Snowden, birthday = 21JUN1983, ....and use an Active Duty Status As Of date of, say, 1JUL2004,....... it shows his dates on active duty were 3JUN2004 – 28SEP2004....
My guess:
7MAY was his enlistment day, one month of DEP, shipped on Thursday, 3JUN..... That would make a BCT Week 1/Day 1 of Friday, 11JUN. .......11B OSUT was 14 weeks at the time, I believe,.... so that means he was fully separated from the Army,... all leave burned,... by the time his buddies were in Tuesday of Tower Week...........
In other words: Dude washed out of basic.