He's a lucky bastard. Not smart, but lucky.
<insert military intelligence joke here>
One common ingredient of every liberty brief is a senior enlisted service member, standing center stage in front of junior personnel in a sit-kneel-stand circle, bellowing warnings about dos and don'ts so outlandish they are inevitably met with scoffs of those in attendance.
"You know the only reason I bring this up is because it"s been done before," the top would say, no matter the perceived insanity of the scenario.
One 32-year-old soldier provided even more obscure material for lengthy liberty brief orators Wednesday when he climbed over a safety railing near an active volcano to get a closer look - and promptly tumbled from the 300-foot cliff and into the Kilauea caldera after losing his footing.
http://www.armytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/05/03/soldier-climbs-over-safety-railing-and-falls-into-active-volcano/