Alaska, of course.
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JBER soldier killed in bear attack on base
A soldier at JBER has died while training after sustaining injuries from a bear attack.
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Bear kills soldier on base
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Just WTF do they send these troops out there without weaponry? Training in the dang woods, in Alaska without a dang gun....................
Details seem scant, generally when a bunch of people are moving around making noise bears make themselves scarce.
Proximity to the landfill could accustom the bears to people and machinery, but usually when they have a easy steady food source they aren't interested in anything else.
Proximity to the landfill could accustom the bears to people and machinery, but usually when they have a easy steady food source they aren't interested in anything else.
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If it was a momma bear, all bets are off, she WILL kill any and all.
Hell of a way to die.
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The only live rounds on base are issued for range time/live fire, or for MPs. That's it. Everything else is blanks or sim. Right, wrong, or indifferent, that's just the way it is (and I do not 'agree' with it).
The only time I have been to Alaska is to a Naval training site in Kodiak, and they warned us that the bears can be aggressive, especially around food sources or baby bears. If I recall, they also said that brown bears are attracted to noise (food??) and repelled by it like black bears.
I lived in AK a while. My observation was around large stable food sources they weren't aggressive except for their spot, they're not all the same though. Stashed animal in the woods, nother story. I saw some with cubs but always kept well away and got moreso, the cubs can make that difficult. Sounds and activity depends on the level, I was envisioning a large unit exercise which was probably not the case.
