SEAL killed in live-fire training

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SEAL killed in live-fire training
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Feb 1, 2008 6:03:52 EST

SAN DIEGO — Navy officials and criminal investigators are probing the death of a SEAL who was shot Wednesday during live-fire close-quarters combat training at a contractor facility in Mississippi, officials said Thursday.

The SEAL was struck by gunfire about 2 p.m. while training at a facility near Lake Cormorant, Miss., said Lt. Tommy Crosby, a Naval Special Warfare Group 1 spokesman in Coronado, Calif. The SEAL’s name will be released after the family is notified, Crosby said.

“He was given medical treatment as soon as possible,” Crosby said. No other details of the incident were available at the time, he said.

Crosby said the Navy and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are investigating the incident.

“This is a terrible loss for the Naval Special Warfare community and his family,” Capt. Thomas L. Brown, NSWG 1’s commanding officer, said in a statement. “I extend my deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathy to his family and friends.”


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