Student dies during training at Fort Benning

<p>A 19-year-old James Madison University student will be buried Wednesday after dying while training at a Georgia Army school.</p><p>Vincent Pedulla had just passed a physical examination when three days into the three-week program he became ill during a 3.2-mile run last week at the Army's Airborne School at Fort Benning, Ga. Pedulla was treated for heat exhaustion, but the cause of his death remains under investigation.</p><p>Pedulla will be buried in Suffolk with full military honors after a funeral at Langley Air Force Base.</p><p>"We're still in a state of shock," said his mother, Susan Pedulla. "We keep waiting, thinking he's going to wake up."</p><p>Pedulla was among a dozen ROTC cadets from JMU attending the training school this summer, said Lt. Col. Dominic Swayne.</p><p>Pedulla passed a medical examination and physical training test at James Madison, and because of a mix-up in paperwork was required to pass another medical exam at Fort Benning.</p><p>"When he got here, he was in good shape," Swayne said. "He was physically fit."</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd9bdc)</p>

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