A U.S. Army ROTC cadet died this past week while training at Fort Knox, the Army announced. Cadet Neil Edara, 22, died on Thursday, July 24 after becoming unresponsive during land navigation training. He was there as part of the Army’s ROTC Cadet Summer Training (CST), an annual program that brings in thousands of trainees to the Kentucky base.

U.S. Army Cadet Command reported that 22-year-old Cadet Neil Edara from New Jersey died during training camp on the Land Navigation site on Fort Knox, Kentucky on July 24.

Neil Edara, a 22-year-old Ridgewood native who joined Rutgers University's ROTC in 2021, was in the middle of the land navigation training at the Kentucky base when he became unresponsive.