
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A Special Forces soldier died from cardiac arrest due to an apparent accidental electrical shock while deployed to Iraq, the Army announced Jan. 8.
The non-combat death of Staff Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth on Jan. 2 in Baghdad is under investigation.
Maseth was a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha team weapons sergeant assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell, Ky.
The 24-year-old soldier from Pittsburgh was serving his second deployment to Iraq after enlisting in June 2001.
His father, Doug Maseth, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that preliminary reports indicated he was shocked while...