B’klyn Army sgt. falls in Kuwait

A BROOKLYN-BASED soldier has died in a non-combat incident in Kuwait, officials said.

Sgt. 1st Class Hughton Brown, 43, was on his second deployment when he died on Nov. 14 at Camp Buehring, a base along the Iraq border.

The Defense Department did not disclose the circumstances of Brown’s death, saying the incident was under investigation.

But his family told media in Jamaica, where Brown was born, that the military told them he collapsed and died during a 2-mile jog with colleagues.

“We are shocked and devastated as we were not expecting this,” his brother Duwayne Andy Tomlinson, told The Gleaner newspaper based in Kingston.

“Our brother was a lively, healthy, vibrant young man, the life of the party, and we await more information from Kuwait on his passing.”

Brown arrived in Kuwait in August as a maintenance supervisor in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan. He was assigned to the Army Reserve’s 306th Engineer Company, 411th Engineer Brigade based out of in Farmingdale, L.I.

He joined the Army in August 1997 and was deployed to Iraq in November 2002 on an eight-month tour.