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The MSM has not covered itself with glory in its reporting of the training-accident death of Fort Hood’s SGT Lawrence Sprader, Jr. on June 8. A report this morning in the daily read like a catch-up piece of some kind, so I went searching the Web for more. I discovered that, on Monday, the Associated Press in Fort Worth reported that judicial action was pending against one or more soldiers involved in the training exercise, a solo compass nav course across difficult, brush-covered terrain in mid-90 degree heat. Today, the Killeen Daily Herald, which has the further incentive of proximity to the fort to endeavor to get the details right, says that only administrative action is being taken, and the judicial action is only "possible." Reading between the lines, it looks like some of Sprader’s superiors were involved in a coverup of the reasons for his hyperthermia, dehydration death. But it’s hard to be sure, since the Army, so far, is not releasing the details of its investigation. The MSM, meanwhile, seems only to be being its usual sloppy self.

UPDATE:  It took some pushing, apparently, but the Army has released the investigation report.