A 20-year-old Private First Class assigned to Fort Liberty, North Carolina, died in a military parachuting mishap on Fort Johnson, Louisiana, at local. The Soldier was conducting a training jump when he experienced a malfunction of a T-11 main parachute during an airborne operation after exiting the C-17 aircraft. The Soldier was airlifted to the local community hospital where he died. The U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center is leading an investigation into the mishap.
Since FY19, the Army has lost an average of one Soldier a year to military parachuting mishaps. This mishap was the first military parachuting fatality of FY24 and equal to the number of fatalities for the same time last year.