2nd recruit dies at Great Lakes in several weeks
By John Keilman
Tribune reporter
6:43 PM CST, February 14, 2012
A naval recruit who aspired to be a military police officer died Friday of causes related to pneumonia, marking the second recruit death in a month at Naval Station Great Lakes.
Navy officials said it is not clear when Elizabeth Richardson, 19, of Zimmerman, Minn., contracted her illness, but that there was no sign others in her battalion had been stricken.
Richardson arrived at the base Jan. 30, and 10 days later went to the nearby Lovell Federal Health Care Center with a fever and a rapid heartbeat, said Navy spokesman Mike Miller. She died the next day, the first time in memory that a recruit had died of pneumonia, Miller said.
Another recruit, Christopher Walker, 19, of Kittanning, Pa., died Jan. 11 after collapsing during a physical fitness test. The base hosts more than 35,000 recruits a year.
jkeilman@tribune.com
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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