Fort Drum says Hayden Harris, a soldier who was reported missing, has been found dead.
Corporal Harris, 20, an infantryman from 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, had been missing since Friday.
Fort Drum has posthumously promoted Harris to Corporal and awarded him the Army Commendation Medal.
He is being remembered as a great soldier and a wonderful, caring person.
“We are devastated,” said Brigadier General Brett Funck, acting senior commander, Fort Drum & the 10th Mountain Division. “It was well known here that Corporal Harris was a great Soldier, and as we share our grief with his friends and Family, I hear again and again how he was also - and most importantly - a really wonderful, caring person. His death is a tremendous loss for his loved ones, this Division and our nation,” he said.
Corporal Harris, of Guys, Tennessee, joined the Army in March 2019, according to the Army. After training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he arrived to Fort Drum, New York, in July 2019.
He is survived by his mother, father, and sister.
There is an ongoing investigation into his death.