Dozens of soldiers injured in photo shoot
Dozens of Australian soldiers were injured on Friday when a tiered bench used for standard military group photos collapsed during a unit photo session at Lavarack Barracks.
FILE PHOTO: A typical Lavarack Barracks tiered group photo – this one from Exercise Suman Warrior 2013. Photo by Corporal Matthew Bickerton.
The accident happened on Friday afternoon when members of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment assembled for a standard unit photograph.
A temporary grandstand erected for the photo shoot is understood to have become unstable and collapsed under the weight of the soldiers assembled upon it.
Queensland Ambulance Service dispatched as many as 12 units to Lavarack Barracks and reported that 96 people were assessed, with 16 eventually taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A further 41 soldiers were treated at medical facilities at Lavarack Barracks.
Defence will initiate an investigation into the incident.
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What brilliant brain organised this.
How simple would it have been for the Sappers to construct the stand as a training exercise.
This will now cost the taxpayer millions in time to come as these innocent victims make future medical claims and seek compensation emanating from their injuries.
Dumb and Dumber.
Jack.
CAV were always ‘big boys’. More PT is required sir.