One soldier has been reprimanded and another is waiting on results of a pre-trial hearing in connection with a failed Humvee air drop over Germany last year.
The soldier, whose name was not released by the Army, received the letter from his colonel, the commander of\u00a0Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Marquardt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skipper,\u00a0a cavalry scout with 1st Battalion, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Vicenza, Italy,\u00a0was responsible for making sure the parachutes were rigged properly for the air drop from a C-130 over Hohenfels Training Area in Germany on April 11, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three \u00a0Humvees slipped from their parachute rigging and plummeted hundreds of feet to the ground, causing in the neighborhood of half a million dollars’ damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skipper could face one to 10 years in confinement, depending on whether a military judge finds that the incident was due to negligence or willful destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the reprimanded soldier was on the ground recording the crashes. His video ended up with more than 1 million views on the U.S. Army W.T.F! moments Facebook page, and in it he could be heard hysterically laughing, cheering and shouting “Yes!” as the Humvees fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In the event this case progresses further, we will release appropriate\u00a0information at each stage of the process,” Marquardt told Army Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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