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Fort Cavazos is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, a native Texan and the US Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. Formerly named Fort Hood for Confederate General John Bell Hood, the post is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 mi (97 km) from each, within ...
On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos), near Killeen, Texas. [ 1 ] Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base and the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States ...
The base confirmed the shooting in a brief statement posted online on April 2, 2014. On its Twitter feed and Facebook page, Fort Hood officials ordered everyone on base to "shelter in place" during the shooting. [19] [20] [21] All of the injured victims were taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, [22] for
The murder of Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old United States Army soldier, took place inside an armory at Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos), Texas, on April 22, 2020, when she was bludgeoned to death by another soldier, Aaron David Robinson. [2] Guillén had been missing for more than two months before some of her dismembered, burned remains were ...
Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is an American former United States Army major, physician and mass murderer convicted of killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009. [ 3 ] Hasan, an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013 ...
Fort Benning (1917), near Columbus, Georgia, named for Confederate General Henry L. Benning, was redesignated Fort Moore on 11 May 2023 in honor of General Hal Moore and his wife Julia Compton Moore [13] Fort Bragg (1918), in North Carolina, named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg, was redesignated Fort Liberty on 2 June 2023 in honor of ...
The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center is a United States Department of Defense medical facility at Fort Cavazos, Texas. It provides medical care to servicemembers and their families, along with veterans and their dependents, in and around the largest U.S. military installation in the world. Named after inventor of water chlorination Brigadier ...
Col. James A. Woodruff. Insignia. Distinctive Unit Insignia. The 20th Engineer Battalion is a combat engineer battalion of the United States Army, headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas. [ 1 ] It is assigned to the 36th Engineer Brigade and III Armored Corps. [ 2 ] The battalion continues the lineage of the 20th Engineer Regiment.