Fort Bragg soldiers face court martial over Pvt. Danny Chen suicide

8 soldiers to be court-martialed at Fort Bragg in Afghanistan suicide case

Published: 09:06 AM,
Thu Apr 12, 2012

By Drew Brooks Staff writer

Soldiers accused of bullying an Army private who later committed suicide in Afghanistan will be court-martialed on Fort Bragg, officials announced Wednesday.

Military authorities say Pvt. Danny Chen of New York suffered racial taunts and physical abuse at the hands of soldiers in his company and eventually shot himself last October in a guard tower at Combat Outpost Palace near Kandahar.

The 19-year-old Chen, a Chinese-American, was deployed to southern Afghanistan as part of the 25th Infantry Division's 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, which is based at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. The eight soldiers charged in the death are members of C Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment.

But in Afghanistan, the soldiers fell under the command of the 82nd Airborne Division, which oversees Regional Command South.
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