Do people die in army bct sometimes? does anyone know from personal experience of it happening while there

Question

Do people die in army bct sometimes? does anyone know from personal experience of it happening while there

Answer 1

The risk is not any higher than in civilian life.....there are inherent dangers in living....

Always found it humorous that my wife used to worry when I went on a parachute operation.....but never worried when I drove to work..... vastly more people are killed on our highways than in Airborne Operations.....

Basic Training is probably safer than most activities....and YES.... I have known troops to die in training......but usually they would have died no matter where they were ( congenital heart defect etc)

The biggest killer is stupidity.....Had a troop that "stole" live ammo from the firing range.....he went through several brass and ammo checks and hid it ......then when he got back to the barracks.....while cleaning his weapon.....he loaded it......dropped the weapon.......and shot himself in the legs......NONE of that would have happened if he had OBEYED THE RULES......stupidity killed him not the Army

Answer 2

Recruits die in basic because:

1. They lied about a medical issue and got in. The died in basic because of complications due to that medical issue.

2. An unknown issue brought out because of the physical stress causes someone to die.

3. Suicide.

4. Deaths due to dehydration/ weather extremities.

Basically, if you drink a lot of water and listen to the drill instructors, you should be fine. If you lied about having asthma or a heart mumur (not that I think you did,) know that there are reasons why they don't let people with those conditions in the military.

Get in shape before! You should be fine!

Answer 3

Sometimes they do - we had one recruit in my basic training that died of an aneurysm.  I have heard of recruits committing suicide while in BCT.

Answer 4

Anything possible, but it's highly unlikely. I haven't heard of any cases of it.

Answer 5

Unless from a pre-existing condition, not usually.  When I was there, no one died, although we did have a soldier that had a brain tumor that he had hidden in order to enlist.  Due to this, he was at sick call a lot.  Other than that most injuries were minor.

Answer 6

Potentially, someone could die in Basic Training but the chances are highly unlikely. If someone does pass away, it is more likely to be because of dehydration or an existing medical condition that they either did or did not know about. There are some cases where service members have either tried to or successfully commited suicide.

I only know of one accidental death during a training mission that occured in 2003 at Ft. Jackson where a soldier was killed due to faulty equipment during a live fire exercise.

It is not something that I would be worried about. I went through basic in 2003 and I know I never thought I was in danger of being killed.  

Answer 7

While in Infantry Basic Training I've heard of people dying because they were dehydrated/overheated to an extreme level. There was one day in March where the temperature was 40 degrees in the morning (5am), and by noon it was 84 degrees. Thats a significant jump in temperature. One of my buddies who was sick, and had not been properly hydrating went down as a severe heat casualty. The got him in the ice-sheets and took his core temperature via rectal thermometer. If he was a little worse, they would have had to give him the "silver bullet", which is basically a saline bag pumped to your core via r****m. Not pretty, I know, but it has been known to save lives. It is possible to die, due to the stress and tempo of BCT, but if you listen to your drill sergeants, you will succeed, with sore muscles at the most.

Answer 8

my friend was in boot and saw a kid jump from the top of a small building. So accidents do happen, but i would guess very rarely