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For the second time in a little over one week, an Army drill sergeant has been found dead at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. Staff Sgt. Zachary L. Melton, 30, who was with 1st Battalion, 34th ...
A decorated soldier stationed at Fort Jackson in Columbia has died, according to the U.S. Army.. Staff Sgt. Corey R. Brown, a 34-year-old drill sergeant, was found unresponsive in his home Sunday ...
In June 2023, Army Sgt. Jaime Contreras died during a training exercise at Fort Jackson. The 40-year-old also was a drill sergeant. In December, two drill sergeants were found dead at Fort Jackson ...
On May 15, 2012, prosecutors decided to seek the death penalty, overruling a pre-trial hearing recommendation that Russell's mental "disease or defect" made capital punishment inappropriate. [7] Lead defense attorney James Culp stated he would pursue an insanity defense, alleging treatment Russell received just prior to the killings was "mental ...
Fort Jackson is a United States Army installation, which TRADOC operates on for Basic Combat Training (BCT), and is located within the city of Columbia, South Carolina.This installation is named for Andrew Jackson, a United States Army general and the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) who was born in the border region of North and South Carolina.
Nidal Hasan when he was still in the military.. The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled in 1983 that the military death penalty was unconstitutional, and after new standards intended to rectify the Armed Forces Court of Appeals' objections, the military death penalty was reinstated by an executive order of President Ronald Reagan the following year.
For the second time in little more than a week a drill sergeant was found dead at Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army said Monday.. The body of Staff Sgt. Zachary L. Melton, a 30-year-old with the 1st ...
A 40-year-old Army staff sergeant training to be a drill sergeant was found dead after failing to return from a land navigation course at a South Carolina military base. Search crews found Staff ...