bizzare lightning

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    Wow, that's insane too. Seven different districts and multiple deaths. Thats just unreal. its within the past 60 days.. now i dont know the numbers but 100+ injuries in the second quarter? That just does not seem like any normal standard. I doubt i will be risking electrical storms this year.
     
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  7. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    Did you even read the stories you linked?

     
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    Actually, yeah some of the initial reports said no one was injured.. but later on they mentioned two or three who might have minor injuries. Thats not really the point im drawing at though. Just look at all the seperate incidents outside of this one particular case. theres about a dozen different lightning strikes on air force cadets and or rotc within the past few years.. i felt compelled to share it.

    Making a side note your post, i dont think we have anyway of knowing how many future soldiers might have actually been injured. Thats kind of difficult to know because the military isnt exactly well known for sharing medical documents. Commanders are even better at covering up training accidents. Way too many factors to rule out the lightning scare.

    I wonder if these 77 cadets will be listed as a statistic for injuries... since they were evaluated.
     
  9. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    So why did you claim in the OP that 77 were injured?

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    I can only find one other instance of a 18 year old cadet killed at Ft. Knox by lightning, care to link the 11 others?

    What exact point are you trying to make anyway?
     
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    Okay you got me, 77 WERENT SERIOUSLY INJURED, instead they were just sent to the hispital. Note macgyver at the time i posted this link the number one article was lightning fells 77 rotc cadets. There was no data released sufficient enoughbto say whether or not anyone was really hurt. so im not surprised that when you clicked the google search a few hours later you found a more officiated report. It continues to show in Google how it fontinuee to be flooded with this story. So now finding the other links has been a pain in the ass.

    http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-28/...-cadets-lightning-strike-first-cadet?_s=PM:US

    http://www.wlky.com/r/24464248/detail.html

    This link is totally out of season but impressive
    http://history1900s.about.com/b/2010/07/07/86-soldiers-died-from-lightning-during-boer-war.htm

    http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Severe/Lightning.aspx

    I cant find much more on it then that because google isnt really omitting the two million articles about the most recent incident. So yeah, i look a bit on the jackass side right now.. but there is alot of data with soldiers and lightning. Hell i even remember getting lightnibg safety briefings or hearing excessively loud lightning and wind warnings that every military instillation seems to have.
     
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    Something to keep in mind here. I was in the military and practically all bases are notoriously flat with lots of parade fields and training grounds, rifle ranges, etc. And all that wide open space with a few power poles scattered around makes some pretty dangerous targets out of the people there.
     
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    Yeah, I agree. Except fort Carson was nothing but rolling hills. At aberdeen we got the most lightning warnings. But we were out in the field training or testing out new hardware. Fort benning shut training down for thunderstorms... not rain though.. its usually a post regulation to take heed to the early warning systems. I am not sure about that though.
     
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