Injured US soldier says he was shocked in shower (installed by KBR)

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - An Army military police officer says he was knocked unconscious and severely burned by an electric shock in a shower trailer in Iraq.

Pfc. Justin Shults today said the shower was installed by the same contractor an Army criminal investigation has pegged in an electrocution death.

The 21-year-old soldier from Hamburg, Pa., says he suffered his injuries in October in a shower trailer that Houston-based KBR had delivered to his unit.

Shults, who's recovering in an outpatient unit at Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio, said in a telephone interview he has burns on his limbs and groin.

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Heather Browne with KBR says she's not familiar with the incident involving Shults. She said the company is committed to safety.

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[BootinUp]

1. I clicked the thread title thinking of making a joke

but that shit just ain't funny. Sounds like he is lucky to be alive.

[Joey Liberal]

2. I never liked MP's

I considered MP's to be the worst trained and worst led Soldiers in the Army, but this isn't funny.

[pasto76]

3. have you served in iraq...?

cause the MPs we worked with over there have my undying gratitude and respect. Very good soldiers. In particular this hottie from the MP platoon assigned to the police station in Iraq. not only was she very attractive, but she was an excellent soldier. Killer through and through.
I fell in love with her instantly.

SGT PASTO

[Joey Liberal]

5. No, I'm a bit too old for Iraq

But MP's were the worst Soldiers I ever saw. They did have some hotties though. Killers? I don't think so:)...........

[RamboLiberal]

4. Dem Senators Casey & Dorgan are going after Gates over this

Describing the Defense Department's slow pace "a continuing outrage," Sen. Bob Casey called on Defense Secretary Robert Gates to punish a contractor who, he said, had permitted substandard work at U.S. facilities leading to the electrocutions of one soldier from the Pittsburgh area and 17 others.

At a news conference today, Mr. Casey, along with fellow Democrat Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, said they've requested a meeting with Mr. Gates to demand faster action to fix electrical problems in Iraq.

Despite lawsuits and continuing denials from the contractor, KBR, a Houston-based company, "despite all of that talk so far, we've still seen no specific action taken against KBR, no announcement of a new policy, whether it's a contract compliance policy or a new enforcement policy -- none of that," said Mr. Casey, who noted that the Army long ago determined that the threat of electrocutions from faulty wiring was the most urgent, non-combat-related danger facing U.S. troops.

"That was years ago. That wasn't last week or a few weeks ago, years ago. ... And here we are in the early part of 2009" with little or no action taken, he added.

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"When I think of what Cheryl Harris and so many other families have endured here, not just the outrage, the continuing and unremitting outrage that here we are more than a year since Ryan's death -- her son Ryan Maseth, Cheryl Harris' son -- here we are a year from that death and we still don't have all the answers. We still don't have any action taken against KBR because of what happened here."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09027/944817-100.stm

And bless the Cheryl Harris the mom of Sgt Maseth for her determination to get justice for the death of her son by KBR.