03-10-2019 21:21 via kvoa.com

The Latest: Army investigating after training jump injuries

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on an Army training parachute accident (all times local):
5 p.m.
The Army is investigating a night parachute training accident that injured 32 soldiers, four of them seriously enough to need hospitalization.
Col. Christopher Landers is commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. He says injuries during training jumps are fairly common. But he says the scale of this accident is fairly rare, with 87 soldiers blown into trees.
He says
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