Certainly … Wednesday, we learned that a young 19 -year -old Swiss recruit had been seriously injured in a leg during an international exercise in land forces on the Place d’Armesteig, in Austria. A armored vehicle rolled him as he was sleeping outdoors, in a sleeping bag. And now two other Swiss soldiers have also finished in the hospital.
Fortunately, these cases are linked to a forest fire, “20 minute” reported. The two Swiss soldiers were intoxicated after inhaling too much smoke. They were taken to the hospital – one of them was helicoptered to the university hospital of Sankt Pölten.
According to “Blick”, the two men in fact spontaneously helped firefighters who were fighting against fire.
The army confirmed this information but this time was reassuring. After checks, these two soldiers were able to leave the hospital and reintegrate the troop.
The new federal adviser Martin Pfister paid his first visit to the troops during this international exercise appointed Triassic 25. The head of the Federal Department of Defense, the Protection of the Population and Sports (DDPS) visited the Swiss soldiers and met Klaudia Tanner, the Austrian Defense Minister on the spot. According to the German press, he wanted a speedy recovery to the soldier seriously injured in a leg.
