Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Mourning the death of yet another Navy Seal in training accident

April 2, 2013

31-year-old was from Elizabethville, Pa


(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) -A Navy SEAL from the Susquehanna Valley has died.

The military has confirmed that Special Warfare Operator Chief, 31-year-old Brett Shadle of Elizabethville in Upper Dauphin County, has died in a training accident.

Shadle was a 2000 graduate of Upper Dauphin High School.

Neighbors of Shadle's family tell News 8 that Brett was nothing but a nice guy and that they feel bad for what the family is going through.

He was assigned to a naval special warfare based unit on the East Coast.

Shadle died Thursday during a training exercise in Arizona. A family member tells News 8 he was a member of SEAL Team 6, the team that carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Military officials say he and another SEAL were practicing a "routine military free-fall training" when they collided in mid-air and landed in separate areas.

A family member tells News 8 that Shadle was married and had two children.

The other SEAL is still in the hospital and listed in stable condition.


source: wgal

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