Fort Hood News

Maryland's National Guard units continue to be extremely active with new deployments occurring regularly.

February 11, 2012 - Chicopee - Staff photo by Michael S. Gordon - CW Heather Burts, second from left, and her husband SSGT Preston Burts, both Soldiers with the U. S. Army Reserve 655th Regional Support Group Saturday after the casing of the colors ceremony at Westover Air Reserve Base to mark their deployment soon to Afghanistan.

Father, 1st. Sgt. Walter Josephs Jr., a field artillery instructor with the Army, and son, Airman 1st Class, Walter Josephs Jr., a 451st Air Expeditionary Wing services journeyman visit together at Kandahar Airfield, Feb.

By Colleen Flaherty Killeen Daily Herald FORT HOOD - With 18 months in the making, Fort Hood's Air Assault School gained official certification this week.

McALLEN Several veterans based out of Fort Hood, Texas, came to the Rio Grande Valley to pay their respects to one of their fallen comrades this weekend.

That's especially true at Fort Hood, and it's making our service members stronger in more than one way.

From school enrollment to medical care and even job searches, it was a one stop shop Army wife Jennifer Wolfe said she just couldn't pass up.

More than two years ago, Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army-trained psychiatrist, entered the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, with two loaded pistols and opened fire.

FORT HOOD A cannon salute was fired at noon Feb. 9 in front of III Corps Headquarters on Fort Hood in honor of the late BG Terence J. Hildner, 13th Sustainment Command commanding general, who died in Afghanistan Feb.

By Rose L. Thayer Killeen Daily Herald Ellison High School students got a history lesson on the Buffalo Soldiers from a Fort Hood unit still carrying one of the famed cavalry regiments' names Wednesday.

Peter Chiarelli retires from the second highest army post Gen. Peter Chiarelli is known for improving the lives of soldiers and their families.

Spc. Joshua Winn, 21, died Saturday from injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Florence, Texas.

"It's a lot more people now that we've been back and It's pretty hard. It's hard getting for PT, lunch breaks.

A lieutenant colonel who first saw war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 comes home from his latest combat deployment disillusioned, convinced that American troops are dying for naught.

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Killeen mayor highlights African-American contributions during proclamation to NAACP By Sean Wardwell Killeen Daily Herald Black History Month celebrations in Killeen continued Tuesday at City Hall, as Mayor Timothy Hancock presented a proclamation to the Killeen branch of the NAACP during a council briefing.

The study, being released today, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or attacks in 2011, down from 26 in 2010 and a peak of 47 in 2009.

An Arkansas soldier has died at a Texas military post. Officials at Fort Hood, outside Killeen, Texas, say Sgt.

A soldier with ties to Shreveport is killed in an accident on a Texas roadway. Specialist Joshua Winn, 21, died February 4 from injuries he sustained in an automobile accident in Florence, Texas.

Spc. Joshua Winn, 21, of Shreveport, La., was pronounced dead at the scene on Farm-to-Market Road 970 at the intersection of Williamson County Road 252.