FORT CAMPBELL—Chief Warrant Officer Second Class James Allread, a maintenance technician in 626th Brigade Support Battalion (Assurgam), may have inadvertently performed a task late last week, sources claim. The 34-year-old vehicle mechanic has been assigned to 626th BSB for four years and has deployed with the unit twice.

“I wasn’t sure what I was seeing,” said one witness, Spc. Arlana Prentiss, a wheeled vehicle mechanic from Vidor, Texas. “There we were, kind of slacking off when we were supposed to be swapping in a new engine on HHC-5, when Chief walked by with his coffee cup and cigarette, and disconnected the battery cables.”