You Put the Helmet on the HEAD 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
At a Maryland Army base in the late 1990s an officer was supervising night maneuvers while appropriately dressed in dark camoflage clothes and with darkened face and hands.
Naturally he chose a central location for his command station. This happened to be the middle of a two-lane highway which cut through the rural base. It was the middle of the night, and he was fatigued, so he understandably sat down for a breather. No chairs were available, but career officers are good at improvising: he took off his helmet and sat down on that. Presently, still dressed in dark clothing, he fell asleep on the unlit highway. No one noticed anything amiss until the truck which hit him made its return trip. When it ran over him the second time, it blew out a tire on the helmet, forcing the driver to stop for repairs. Unfortunately the officer at this point was beyond repair.
I heard about this when I was at the Aberdeen Proving Ground between 1995-2000. I don't remember the exact year. It happened at the APG, but I couldn't find a reference to it in the Baltimore Sun, and the local paper does not have an online archive. Submitted on 09/04/2002
Submitted by:
Shirin R. de Silva
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