Daniel Patrick Fisher
Cause of Death: Accidentally shot 6th week into basic training.
“Pvt. Daniel Patrick Fisher 19 of Bassett died Thursday October 4, 2007 at Fort Sill in Oklahoma during a training exercise while in basic training.”
“Private Daniel Patrick Fisher, 19, of Bassett, Virginia, was pronounced dead at a local hospital after being struck in the abdomen by a .50 caliber machine gun round after it was accidentally discharged during a training event on Fort Sill’s East Range shortly after 3 p.m. that day.”
“Noncommissioned officers failed to properly inspect and account for the ammunition prior to executing the next day’s training, resulting in the live round going undetected. The investigation also identified several contributing factors, including poorly planned training, ammunition misidentification, inadequate risk assessment and inadequate inspection of the unit’s training prior to the incident.”