{"id":105368,"date":"2020-09-23T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105368"},"modified":"2020-09-22T21:21:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T01:21:18","slug":"fort-sill-trainees-who-stopped-a-suicide-attempt-receive-promotions-in-basic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105368","title":{"rendered":"Fort Sill trainees who stopped a suicide attempt receive promotions in basic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Privates Fontanez and Till<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I saw this article<\/a> yesterday, but I’ve been too busy to post something up on it sooner. ninja, as always, also helped tip us off on it. Ignore for the moment that someone writing for the ARMY Times\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>doesn’t know Army enlisted ranks.<\/p>\n

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Two 22-year-old trainees at\u00a0Fort Sill, Oklahoma, were promoted to private 2nd class after they stopped a fellow trainee from hanging himself Sept. 3, one week into basic combat training, post officials said in an Army\u00a0news release.<\/p>\n

Carlos Fontanez and Ari Till, of A Battery, 1st Battalion, 19th Field Artillery, were promoted outside their battalion headquarters in front of 230 of their fellow trainees Friday, the release stated.<\/p>\n

The two men had only been in\u00a0basic combat training\u00a0for a week when the incident occurred, according to their battery commander, Capt. Bianca Huntsman.<\/p>\n

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The incident occurred on a Thursday morning, as both men found their fellow trainee attempting suicide with a PT belt inside the latrines.<\/p>\n

Fontanez began to suspect the trainee intended to hurt himself in the first week of training, but did not detail the exact events that led him to that conclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe slept to the right of me. \u2026 With previous events that had happened, I kind of realized maybe I should talk to him,\u201d said Fontanez, in a video released by the Army. \u201cIn the latrine I saw what was going down and I was just telling him, \u2018C\u2019mon, think about what you\u2019re about to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Fontanez first found the fellow trainee attempting to fashion his PT belt into a noose and quickly grabbed him. Till, who was busy cleaning, heard the commotion and came in to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lifted him up so he could breathe, and Till unclipped the PT belt, and we just got him down and stayed by him until he got help,\u201d Fontanez explained in the video.<\/p>\n

The two trainees brought the situation to their cadre after addressing the immediate danger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I always said those PT belts could kill you. BZ to to the two new PV2’s for quick thinking and lifesaving of their battle buddy! The men also got a challenge coin from the battalion commander. Then, there’s this little nugget;<\/p>\n

Huntsman said in the release that the trainee whose life Fontanez and Till saved is currently in a medical facility, but is anticipated to eventually restart basic training.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ninja and others took issue with this. I hope this is just for the press release. That they didn’t want to sound mean that the guy is chaptering out on an ELS. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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