Found Deceased WA - Alex Stewart, US Army, hiking with friend, High Steel Bridge, Mason Co., 7 Apr 2019

[cybervampira]

Mason County Sheriff's Office

MCSO Search And Rescue are actively searching the High Steel Bridge area for a missing hiker. He was hiking with a friend yesterday around the bridge. He is a soldier from JBLM.



Mason County deputies searching for missing soldier from JBLM

 

[ClaireNC]

A little more info: Search launched for missing soldier near High Steel Bridge
The missing man, who is a soldier at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, was hiking with a buddy on Sunday when the two of them decided to split up and hike in separate directions for a while, said a Mason County Sheriff's Office spokesperson.

 

[CaseyLPC]

A little more info: Search launched for missing soldier near High Steel Bridge
The missing man, who is a soldier at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, was hiking with a buddy on Sunday when the two of them decided to split up and hike in separate directions for a while, said a Mason County Sheriff's Office spokesperson.

RBBM. That seems like a really strange thing to do. I am not a hiker, but I would think that when buddy hiking the buddies would stick together.

 

[doodles1211]

This is the third (at least... and probably 4th or 5th) soldier from that base gone missing in the past year, I believe. I am going to go look the other up... brb.

 

[doodles1211]

Joint Base Lewis-McChord Washington- 4 Soldiers either found deceased or missing

Then there is this...

GUILTY - WA - Tarrah 'Danielle' Nemetz, 19, murdered, Lakewood, 16 Oct 2014

Not sure if all military bases are having these same issues???

 

[doodles1211]

The sheriff's office said Monday afternoon that evidence suggests the soldier fell from the cliffs into the river. Authorities searched the river with a helicopter. Over 150 soldiers joined the ground search while Olympic Mountain Rescue rappelled down the cliffs.

Authorities suspended the search because of narrow canyons and high water.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-missing-jblm-soldier-who-disappeared-on-hike

 

[PastTense]

"July 1, 2019. MASON COUNTY, WA — The Mason County Sheriff's Office late last week announced it had recovered the body of the missing soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), who went was thought to have fallen from the cliffs near the High Steel Bridge over Skokomish River while hiking with a friend April 7."
Body Of Missing JBLM Soldier Recovered From Skokomish River

"April 12, 2019. A Payne County family is left with few options but to grieve after learning their son, Alex Stewart, 21, of Stillwater, was the soldier who went missing in Washington state. Father, Morgan, of Stillwater, and mother, Cheryl, of Perkins, were notified this week that the search had been suspended for Alex, who is a U.S. Army military police officer at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The Mason County Sheriff’s Office believes Alex had fallen from a cliff near High Steel Bridge into the Skokomish River near Shelton, Washington.

“He and a buddy went hiking, they separated for a short period of time and Alex never returned to their rendezvous point. His buddy looked for a little while but finally had to call in the authorities,” Morgan said. “The county, the parks service and the Army as well, all searched and finally pulled in a U.S. Navy helicopter. They searched the canyon with infrared and they could not find a heat signature anywhere in the canyon at that point the search changed from search and rescue to search and recovery. It was at that point that they made the determination that he was dead. They did find a place where someone evidently slid off a cliff into the river. Their assumption is he was trying to get a vantage point to take a picture. It’s a dangerous spot, they really prefer people didn’t go there, but people do. Their assumption is he slid down in the cliff and into the river, they’ve had that happen before.”"
Payne County parents learn son is soldier reported missing, presumed dead in Washington