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Deadly West Point accident rare but not unprecedented

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In 2016, nine soldiers died after their vehicle flipped in a flood stream
The U. S. Military Academy at West Point is investigating a deadly rollover during a training exercise that killed one cadet and left 21 others injured.
It isn’t the first time that members of the military have been killed during training exercises. Back in June 2016 at Texas’ Fort Hood, nine soldiers died after their vehicle flipped in a flood stream. In 2009,13 were injured after their truck overturned at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Now, investigators want to know exactly how a tactical vehicle packed with cadets overturned in the woods near the Academy early Thursday morning.

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