Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy will take administrative action that will remove soldiers from their jobs, and likely trigger investigations that could lead to a wide range of punishments, according to officials.
In this excerpt from Kevin Maurer’s 2020 book “Rock Force,” we meet Pvt. Lloyd McCarter as he and the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment prepare for the airborne assault in February 1945.
Searches over the past two days for Pvt. Richard Halliday, 21, have so far yielded no clues. But there is no indication of foul play at this time, according to the Army.
The soldier’s mother and father said it took more than month before the Army informed them their son was missing, and that was only after they called his unit.
An Army tank crewman from New Mexico who died at Fort Hood, Texas, messaged his fiance that he was concerned about three men who didn’t like him and that “something was wrong” shortly before his death, his family said.
The Navajo Nation has joined calls for an accounting of the deaths at Fort Hood after one of its members became the latest soldier from the U.S. Army post to die this year.