Fort Hood News

A military experiment underway in California is designed to try to predict who's most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Many more mental health specialists were wounded in the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood , Texas, than previously reported, decimating the two units deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq, a commanding general says.

RIYADH,Saudi Arabia - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia a ' Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West.

San Antonio Express-News, on the swine flu vaccine: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has a consoling message for everyone who has tried unsuccessfully to get the H1N1 vaccine: Don't worry - more vaccine is on the way.

CHICAGO a * Dozens of American flags lined the outside a Chicago funeral home where a 21-year-old soldier killed at Fort Hood was remembered Thursday as an optimistic person who loved to dance and who had dedicated her life to service.

The U.S. Army Reserve Command holds a ceremony Wednesday at Fort McPherson, Ga. to honor the five reservists who were killed in the Nov.

Former GOP VP hopeful and Alaska governor Sarah Palin will take her "Going Rogue" book tour to Fort Hood, Texas.

In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist indoctrination.

He destroyed the meaning of the often-used statement by soldiers--"I rather have him with me in combat than anyone else"--and it may well have created a new kind of distrust for the guy next to you when you are in the middle of a combat zone.

In May of 2007 Dr. Scott Moran, the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, outlined his concerns about Hasan in a memo.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman, U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman speaks at a news conference about a Senate investigation into the Fort Hood shootings, Nov.

WASHINGTON: Top military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said on Tuesday that US forces were under strain from fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but were not at a "tipping point". The mental fitness of American troops has come under intense scrutiny after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood by an army psychiatrist this month and amid a rise in ...

The shots rang out like firecrackers - pop, pop, pop, bang. Staff Sgt. Aaron "Kyle" Puckett, 30, dropped the lunch he was eating at his desk and ran to the double glass doors that looked directly out on Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Center, a building just 50 feet away.

Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee have sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling for an immediate Congressional investigation into circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shooting.

CONGRESS is right to investigate the troubling case of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as there are far too many disturbing and unanswered questions regarding the accused mass murderer.

Share + Nov 16, 2009 5:55 pm US/Central Reporting Jim Williams A hearse drove by a Chicago high school on Monday as a former student's classmates stood and saluted the fallen soldier.

A Pentagon probe will look at how all branches of the armed forces -- not just the Army -- keep an eye out for potential problems within their ranks.

WASHINGTON a ' Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could mean the Army is starting to make progress in stemming them, officials said Tuesday.

They were supposed to be spending a day leading Mass, talking to soldiers about love and marriage, readying for their own deployment.

Daughter Kerry Cahill and Lt. Veronica Pacheco console each other Sunday in Cameron at the funeral for Michael Cahill, a physician's assistant who was killed in the Fort Hood mass shootings.