The base commander, Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, was removed and denied a planned transfer to Fort Bliss in El Paso as a division commander, the Army announced. In Congress, members of the House of Representatives announced on Tuesday that they would launch their own investigation into the “alarming pattern of recent tragedies” at Fort Hood. In a letter to the Secretary of the Army, Ryan D. McCarthy, the two representatives directing the inquiry said that he himself had acknowledged the problem during a briefing at Fort Hood last month. “I just find this very worrisome,” said Dr. Stephen N. Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired Army brigadier general who was a top medical officer at Fort Hood in the early 1980s. Fort Hood is physically larger than New York City.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2020 16:29 UTC