On Saturday, Bourgeois, 43, was injured when he was fast-roping down from a helicopter, Naval Special Warfare Command said Wednesday. He died Monday.
The cause of a training incident is under investigation after Commander Brian Bourgeois, Navy SEAL commanding officer of Team 8, died from injuries in Virginia.
When a helicopter cannot land, SEALs will fast-rope to deploy, the Navy said. Soldiers will swiftly slide down a thick, heavy rope one after the other, according to"An incident like this weighs heavily on us all," Captain Donald G. Wetherbee, commodore for Naval Special Warfare Group 2, said in a statement,reported."Brian was as tough as they come, an outstanding leader, and a committed father, husband and friend. This is a great loss to everyone who knew him.
This undated image provided by the U.S. Navy shows Brian Bourgeois, the SEAL commander who died from injuries sustained while training in Virginia.that SEAL Team 8 is based in Virginia Beach and has a geographic concentration in the Caribbean, Africa and the Mediterranean.
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