A Utah soldier drowned last year due, at least in part, to an inadequate safety vest and a lack of protocols by U.S. Army special forces, according to an investigator’s report.
The families of Utah’s 15 military members who lost their lives last year were recognized at the Capitol on Friday, including Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, who was killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan in August 2021.