The Army says a wrong turn led to a last year that sent an 18-ton Stryker vehicle tumbling over a cliff.
A soldier who lost the use of his legs in the incident, though, says the cause of the wreck was 1st Brigade Combat Team commanders pushing their troops too hard in training with unfamiliar equipment.
“It was murder,” said retired Sgt. Tim Riney, one of six soldiers hurt in the 9 p.m. crash on Feb. 6, 2015.
Staff Sgt. Justin L. Holt, 31, died when he was thrown from the Stryker along with Riney when the Stryker tumbled off a 250-foot cliff on the post’s training range 41, on the southeastern corner of the 135,000-acre installation.
Investigators spent months probing the crash and it took more than a year for the Army to release documents in the incident. The documents contain vast redactions where the Army has blacked out investigators’ findings, leaving a wrong turn to blame in the public version of events.
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