Kevin McSpadden has a
Time article via
NBC News about yet another
Marine training accident:
A fire extinguisher went off inside an amphibious landing vehicle during a large training exercise at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California, injuring twenty-two Marines, local and Marine officials said.
No conditions were reported, but the Corps said all twenty-two Marines were stable in area hospitals. An official at the base hospital told NBC News that most of the injuries were related to inhalation of a noxious substance. A San Bernardino County fire official initially said "about two dozen" people were injured; the Marine Corps put the number at twenty-two in a statement.
Assault amphibious vehicles are tanklike troop transports used to land forces and their equipment from assault ships during amphibious operations. They were being used during ITX live-fire drills (photo) at Twentynine Palms, the Marines' biggest combined-arms training installation, in rugged terrain deep in the Mojave desert of Southern California.
Rico says the 'noxious substance' was apparently a fire extinguisher going off in a vehicle:
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