Wounded Kentucky GI found dead at Fort Sam

Wounded Kentucky GI found dead at Fort Sam

By Scott Huddleston - Express-News Another soldier recovering from war injuries died this week in his barracks at Fort Sam Houston, the Army said Wednesday.

Spc. Franklin D. Barnett Jr., 29, was found dead in his room Sunday afternoon, according to a release from Brooke Army Medical Center. Barnett, who was hurt in Afghanistan, had been assigned to C Company of the Warrior Transition Battalion since Oct. 15.

Barnett's death, at least the third in less than three months involving members of the battalion, is under investigation.

Earlier this year, Spc. Craig Reginald Hamilton and Warrant Officer 1 Judson Erick Mount, also members of the warrior transition battalion, died on post. Army officials have not released details in either death, citing ongoing investigations.

Hamilton, 35, of Milford, N.H., had been injured at Fort Sill, Okla. He died at Fort Sam on March 27.

Mount, a 37-year-old former San Antonian, was badly wounded in a car bomb blast near a market in Iraq. He died April 7.
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