Posts tagged Fort Hood
President Obama Addresses Veterans, Fort Hood in Weekly Address–watch it here.
Nov 15th
Also attached are President Obama’s Veterans’ Day comments at Arlington National cemetery and his comments at Fort Hood.
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Got Your Back Network: Fort Hood Fund
Nov 9th
The Virginia Veteran strongly suggests donating a couple if you have them. This is a great and
reputable non-profit that does great work. thanks for your generous support of these families and children.
The recent tragic shooting at Fort Hood in Texas has impacted our military family community. While the experts and media are trying to learn why it took place, the spouses and children of this military community are in need of financial and emotional support as they look for recovery and peace of mind.
The Got Your Back Network is asking you to make a donation of any amount to our Fort Hood Fund. One hundred percent of your donation will go directly to help the spouses and children at Fort Hood who lost a family member in the base shooting in whatever ways that they require. If you’ve been watching the news reports, you’ve seen just a fraction of the physical and emotional impact this event has inflicted on the people who are serving our country along with their families. Your donation of any amount will make a large difference in the lives of the families of America’s heroes who were taken from them in a painful way.
http://www.gotyourbacknetwork.org/forthood.html
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Soldiers not surprised by Fort Hood massacre
Nov 8th
FORT HOOD — When a lone gunman armed with two handguns fired into scores of soldiers last week at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding more than 30, the nation reacted in shock.
Many veterans of the Iraq war, however, did not.
“It’s sad to say, but basically it doesn’t surprise us. In a way, it was like it’s waiting to happen. I guess that’s the biggest thing,” Spc. Travis McRae said Saturday.
“It’s basically that the Army has an awesome way of getting you ready for war,” he continued. “It gets you in that mindset to go over there and fight, but whenever you come back, they don’t have a way of turning that switch off.”
A two-tour veteran of Iraq, McRae, 24 of Fort Hood, said soldiers often won’t talk with the media or civilians about the stresses of war out of fear of embarrassment or possible retribution from their supervisors.
But McRae and other soldiers said Saturday — and in many other prior interviews with the San Antonio Express-News — that revolving-door deployments have robbed GIs of years with their families, and train-ups and new rotations to the war zone squeezed them for time with their wives and children.
“Without a doubt, I’d say repeated deployments back-to-back definitely have a lot of stress on every individual unless you want to deploy and you don’t have a family,” said Sgt. David Shores, 29, of Frederick, Md., a two-tour veteran of Taji, at one time one of Iraq’s most violent areas.
McRae is leaving the Army, he said.
“If I were going to stay, I would know I was fixing to deploy again, so you’re looking at 4 1/2 years and I would be going on my third deployment,” he said. “I guess hopeless is the best way to put it, because no matter what you do, you go back and you get ready to go back again.”
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Army: 7 dead in dual attacks at Fort Hood, Texas
Nov 5th
AP–WASHINGTON — The Army says seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.
An Army spokesman at the Pentagon says the shootings began about 1:30 p.m. Thursday at a personnel and medical processing center at Fort Hood.
The spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Banks, says two shooters were apparently involved. There is no word yet on who they were, nor on identities of the dead.
Banks says the second incident took place at a theater on the sprawling base.
He says it is too soon to tell whether there is any link to battle stress or repeated deployments. The Army is suffering a record high suicide rate and other signs of stress from fighting two wars.
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