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                         August 9, 2002

Heat cause of death

Fort Benning Public Affairs Press Release

FORT BENNING, Ga. -- The final results of an autopsy conducted on a 22-year-old Second Lt. Zachariah R. Miller, who died during a land navigation training exercise in July, determined the cause of death was due to heat stroke.

Miller, of Stoneboro, Pa., was attending the 75th Ranger Regiment Training Detachment’s pre-Ranger course at Fort Benning.

When he failed to return to the base at the end of the allotted time for the land navigation course, members of the 75th Ranger Regiment immediately began a search. Miller was found dead later that day.

Miller graduated in June from the U.S. Military Academy.

He was to attend the University of Oxford in England this fall as a Rhodes scholar.