Lightning strikes Fort Gordon in Georgia and leaves 10 soldiers injured
LIGHTNING has struck the Army’s Fort Gordon base leaving at least 10 soldiers injured.
A bolt hit one of the training areas of the US military‘s Fort Gordon Range Control station in Georgia at around 11am on Wednesday.
Range Control reported that a lightning strike injured 10 soldiers.
The severity of the troops’ injuries remains unclear.
Fort Gordon said Emergency Services and EMS units responded to the scene.
The army’s Garrison-Fort Gordon performs base support operations to “enable mission readiness and provides an enhanced quality of life for the Service Members, Families and Civilians of Fort Gordon and the Gillem Enclave,” their website states.
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Fort Gordon is among nine army bases that have been recommended for a name change due to being named in honor of people with ties to the Confederacy.
In May, the military base renaming commission chose Fort Eisenhower as its recommendation for the new name of Fort Gordon.
The panel will forward its recommendations to Congress by October 1.
After the commission’s official recommendation, the US Department of Defense will be charged with executing base renamings no later than January 1, 2024.
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Fort Gordon was named after John Gordon, a Confederate general.
He went on to become a US senator and Georgia governor.
As Fort Eisenhower, the post would be named in honor of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a World War II general.