Iraq veteran fighting to walk again after New Orleans attack by fellow ex-soldier
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Fundraising page launched for Adam Coste, who had spent 12 years in army before working at National WWII Museum. The former US army soldier who carried out the New Orleans truck attack that killed 14 victims – and injured dozens more – on New Year’s Day has left a fellow veteran of that military branch fighting to “regain his ability to walk”, according to supporters of the wounded service member.
Before joining other revelers on the city’s famous Bourbon Street to celebrate the start of 2025, Adam Coste had spent more than 12 years in the US army as an infantry company commander and headquarters company commander while serving on multiple combat deployments, according to information posted on a verified GoFundMe campaign established for him.
An article on the army’s website recounts a time that the native of Ocean City, New Jersey, was serving as a mortal platoon leader in Iraq in 2011 during the US’s so-called war on terror. During his last active duty assignment, from 2018 to 2020, Coste worked as an assistant professor of military science at Tulane University in New Orleans.
He then joined the national second world war museum in New Orleans as the educational travel manager for the organization’s institute for the study of war and democracy. It was in that role “where his true passion lies”, providing and producing historical content for tours to both Europe and the Pacific for travelers interested in the allied Forces’ successful effort to defeat the so-called Axis powers.
