Army aiming to reduce accidental gun discharges
PETERSBURG, VA. — In the early months of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Army Spc. Paul Sturino awoke one day and was readying himself for guard duty when another soldier accidentally shot him in the neck.
"Somehow it went off," his mother Christine Wetzel said, recounting the official reports of her 21-year-old son's death on Sept. 22, 2003.
"I just think we're sending young, young people into situations that they're not ready for," Wetzel said from her home in Rice Lake, Wis.
Sturino is one of 21 soldiers killed because of accidental discharges in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003, according to the Army's Combat Readiness Center. Eighty-nine others were injured in similar circumstances.
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"Somehow it went off," his mother Christine Wetzel said, recounting the official reports of her 21-year-old son's death on Sept. 22, 2003.
"I just think we're sending young, young people into situations that they're not ready for," Wetzel said from her home in Rice Lake, Wis.
Sturino is one of 21 soldiers killed because of accidental discharges in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003, according to the Army's Combat Readiness Center. Eighty-nine others were injured in similar circumstances.
Read the rest at the Houston Chronicle
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