Fort Benning on Monday identified a National Guards member who died following a training march over the weekend as Pvt. Aurek S. Rardin, 20, of Tennessee.
Rardin – who was assigned to the 198th Infantry Brigade – was participating in basic training. He vomited and lost his pulse following a “ruck march,” Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan said. Officials revived Rardin at a military hospital and then transported him to St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, where he was pronounced dead early Saturday morning.
A Fort Benning spokeswoman said the military is investigating the cause of his death.
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