This is the second event in three weeks to include weather and army casualties.
Two Fort Benning soldiers were killed and three others injured in weather-related events in northern Georgia, officials said Tuesday.
The incident occurred on Mount Jonah near Dahlonega, a spokesman for the Army Mobility Center of Excellence and Fort Benning Public Affairs said in a statement.
Three of his wounded soldiers were treated by Army medics at the scene before being transferred to a local hospital, a spokesperson said.
As the sun rises in Columbus, the bridge marks the entrance to the US Army's Fort Benning Shows Georgia, October 16, 2015.
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Their The name is withheld due to pending next of kin notification.
This is his second weather and Army fatality in his three weeks in Georgia.
On 20 July, a US Army Reserve soldier was killed and nine others injured in a lightning strike
