“The military failed him by not looking,” his mother, Kimberly Wedel, told The Washington Post. ADBut his disappearance rose in prominence during a search for another missing soldier at Fort Hood, Spc. The Army offered a $15,000 reward for information on the disappearance of Wedel-Morales more than nine months after his disappearance. The Wedel family said it was tangled in the Kafkaesque rules of military bureaucracy and the Army’s initial disinterest in finding him. The family feels some vindication now that Wedel-Morales has been reinstated as a soldier who died on duty, Kimberly Wedel said.

Source: Washington Post July 15, 2020 20:10 UTC