Night training maneuver exercise.
M-1 Tank rolled over killing Tank Commander, pronounced dead at the scene.
Night training maneuver exercise.
M-1 Tank rolled over killing Tank Commander, pronounced dead at the scene.
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A few articles on Newspapers.com briefly mention the incident. Staff Sergeant Rodney W. Scarbro, Jr. was the man's name.
The post newspaper, the Fort Hood Sentinel, has been digitized and is available online. You can access it here for free. They probably have more details. You may want to search for a period after the accident; as I recall from my time at Fort Hood, they would do follow-up articles after the safety reports were released saying what happened so other people could learn from them.