A 22-year-old Army ROTC cadet died during summer training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, officials said in a statement over the weekend.

Neil Edara, a 22-year-old Ridgewood native who joined Rutgers University's ROTC in 2021, was in the middle of the land navigation training at the Kentucky base when he became unresponsive.

A member of the Army's Reserve Officers Training Corps died while training in Kentucky last week, authorities said: Neil Edara, of Ridgewood, N.J., "became unresponsive while conducting Land Navigation Training" on Thursday,