{"id":59584,"date":"2015-05-01T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59584"},"modified":"2015-05-01T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T12:38:28","slug":"sgt-nicholas-roberts-in-parachute-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59584","title":{"rendered":"Specialist Nicholas Roberts in parachute accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ROS sends us a link to the sad news<\/a> that a young paratrooper, Specialist Nicholas Roberts was killed in a parachute accident on Tuesday, the second death in the last month which has caused the XVIIIth Airborne Corps to suspend parachute operations on Fort Bragg while an investigation of the accidents in conducted;<\/p>\n

Spc. Nicholas Roberts, 27, of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, died Tuesday during a training jump over Sicily Drop Zone. On April 16, Pvt. Joshua D. Phillips, 19, of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, died during an airborne training exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.<\/p>\n

Both paratroopers were using T-11 parachutes, which have been associated with at least four deaths of Fort Bragg soldiers since 2011.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Corps will require that each unit will be required to pass through an Airborne Refresher Course at the Advanced Airborne School. This marks the fourth death of paratroopers in the 82d Airborne Division involving the T-11 parachutes. The article says that 63,000 jumps have been conducted with that parachute since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n

Specialist Roberts was a Reservist MP with a tour of Afghanistan and he had recently transitioned to the active force. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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