15 solders injured in explosion at Fort Bragg

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An explosion during a training exercise injured a number of U.S. special operations forces at Fort Bragg on Thursday. The soldiers were taken to the Army base’s Womack Army Medical Center for treatment, said Lt. Col. Rob Bockholt, a spokesman for the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Command, which is based at Fort Bragg. Bockholt didn’t yet know the number of soldiers injured or the extent of those injuries. He also could not say what exactly caused [&hel