Cadet Neil Edara joined the ROTC at Rutgers University in 2021. He was at Fort Knox as part of the 9th Regiment, Advanced Camp, according to the Army ROTC.

During summer training on July 24, Edara collapsed in front of others. He was flown on a military helicopter to U of L Hospital, where he later died.

The Jefferson County Coroner released his cause of death as hyperthermia, or heat-stress related.

An Army ROTC Cadet who died in July while in training at Fort Knox died of complications of environmental hyperthermia, or overheating, according to records from the Jefferson County Coroner's office.

Cadet Neil Edara was 22.

According to the records, which The Courier Journal obtained under the state's public records law, medical examiner Lauren Lippincott ruled Edara's death an accide

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