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02-01-08, 05:31 AM
Navy SEAL killed during live-fire exercise
By: Associated Press -
SAN DIEGO ---- Navy investigators were looking into the death of a SEAL shot and killed during a live-fire training exercise in Mississippi.
The SEAL, whose identity was being withheld pending notification of family, died Wednesday after being shot during training near Lake Cormorant, Miss., said Lt. Tommy Crosby, a Naval Special Warfare Group 1 spokesman in Coronado.
Crosby said a Coronado-based SEAL team was practicing "close-quarter combat" ---- fighting an enemy with weapons at very close range ---- at the time of the incident.
Navy officials said the SEAL was given immediate medical treatment but would not say what wounds he suffered.
Crosby said no other details surrounding the death would be immediately released.
The death was under joint investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department.
The Navy did not immediately identify the training facility, referring to it only as a "training facility run by contractors."
Ellie
By: Associated Press -
SAN DIEGO ---- Navy investigators were looking into the death of a SEAL shot and killed during a live-fire training exercise in Mississippi.
The SEAL, whose identity was being withheld pending notification of family, died Wednesday after being shot during training near Lake Cormorant, Miss., said Lt. Tommy Crosby, a Naval Special Warfare Group 1 spokesman in Coronado.
Crosby said a Coronado-based SEAL team was practicing "close-quarter combat" ---- fighting an enemy with weapons at very close range ---- at the time of the incident.
Navy officials said the SEAL was given immediate medical treatment but would not say what wounds he suffered.
Crosby said no other details surrounding the death would be immediately released.
The death was under joint investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department.
The Navy did not immediately identify the training facility, referring to it only as a "training facility run by contractors."
Ellie