Soldier apparently killed self after failing test

SAN ANTONIO — The military says a soldier who flunked out of combat medic training has been found dead in an apparent suicide at the Fort Sam Houston barracks.

Spokesman Phil Reidinger at the base in Texas says Pfc. Jaynie May Askew was found Tuesday on her bed, next to a note and a .45-caliber handgun.

Reidinger says only two of the 60 training medics living at the barracks were there at the time of the shooting. He says the gun was not military issued and he doesn’t know how she got the gun into the barracks.

The 43-year-old Askew was being sent back to a military police unit of the Arizona National Guard after failing a required emergency medical technician test.